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problem installing perl modules without root permission

by why_bird (Pilgrim)
on Feb 28, 2008 at 10:37 UTC ( #670876=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

why_bird has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear all,

I'm trying to install Readonly.pm. I couldn't install at the default path as I don't have root permission.
I've therefore installed it in ~misc/perl_lib, where I do have permissions, by typing

perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/misc/perl_lib;
make;
make test;
make install;

I then copied Readonly.pm to ~/misc/perl_lib (it was buried in ~/misc/perl_lib/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/ ) and added 
...
use lib '~/misc/perl_lib';
...

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to the top of my script. I got a can't locate Readonly error, so I tried adding 
...
use lib '~/misc/perl_lib/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/';
...

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but still got the can't find error, as below, even though the correct diretories seem to be in @INC:

Can't locate Readonly.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
~/misc/perl_lib/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/
~/misc/perl_lib
/usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.5/x86_64-l....etc

Any suggestions??
thanks!

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Re: problem installing perl modules without root permission
by almut (Canon) on Feb 28, 2008 at 10:47 UTC

    In contrast to the typical Unix shell, Perl does not expand ~ to your home directory, so you'll have to do that yourself, i.e. something like '/home/username/...', or "$ENV{HOME}/..." (if HOME is set in your environment).

    (for the sake of correctness: I updated the $ENV{HOME} part a couple of seconds after my initial post... thus glide's reply)

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      ... or use glob to expand the tilde.
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      Hi,

      in a unix environment, you can also use the $ENV{HOME}

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Re: problem installing perl modules without root permission
by why_bird (Pilgrim) on Feb 28, 2008 at 11:30 UTC
    thankyou, solved my problem. :)
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