$ su - # Become root. $ chmod 000 /opt/perl/lib/site_perl # As root. $ ^D # Normal user again. No LWP and a whole lot of dependencies available. $ rm -rf ~/cpan/build/* # Clear cache $ perl -MLWP -e1 Can't locate LWP.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ...) $ perl -MCPAN -e'test "LWP"' ... Prepending /home/anonmonk/cpan/build/Compress-Zlib-1.34/blib/arch /home/anonmonk/cpan/build/Compress-Zlib-1.34/blib/lib /home/anonmonk/cpan/build/HTML-Tagset-3.04/blib/arch /home/anonmonk/cpan/build/HTML-Tagset-3.04/blib/lib /home/anonmonk/cpan/build/URI-1.35/blib/arch /home/anonmonk/cpan/build/URI-1.35/blib/lib /home/anonmonk/cpan/build/HTML-Parser-3.45/blib/arch /home/anonmonk/cpan/build/HTML-Parser-3.45/blib/lib to PERL5LIB. ... All tests successful, 4 tests skipped. # Note, no installation. No attempts to installation either. $ perl -MLWP -e1 Can't locate LWP.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ...) $ perl -MURI -e1 # One of the dependencies. Can't locate URI.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ...) $ ls ~/cpan/build Compress-Zlib-1.34 HTML-Tagset-3.04 libwww-perl-5.803 HTML-Parser-3.45 URI-1.35 $ su - $ chmod 755 /opt/perl/lib/site_perl $ ^D $ perl -MLWP -e1 $