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Why can't you use perlbrew? 

perlbrew is a program to automate the building and installation of
perl in an easy way. It provides multiple isolated perl environments,
and a mechanism for you to switch between them.

Everything are installed unter ~/perl5/perlbrew. You then need to
include a bashrc/cshrc provided by perlbrew to tweak the PATH for you.
You then can benefit from not having to run 'sudo' commands to install
cpan modules because those are installed inside your HOME too.

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Re^2: Time for an application portfolio
by talexb (Chancellor) on Jul 29, 2015 at 19:10 UTC

    Thanks for your suggestion. I like perlbrew, and I may end up using that, but for now I've chosen a simpler method to get things going. I have set up local::lib on my account, then used the excellent cpanm to install the two modules that I need so far (Mojolicious::Lite and CAM::PDF).

    The biggest hurdle I've had is to remember the chmod +x $your_script_here command. And I'm using sshfs so that I can edit locally, in the comfort of gvim, rather than fiddling with text mode vim which is doable but a bit ancient. (I love me some syntax highlighting.)

    Thanks everyone for your feedback!

    Update: Rob Hammond's blog post about running Mojo on a shared host was quite useful -- I feel a bit of a fraud when I put Apache on my resume when it actually means I need to run off to http://apache.org to go look something simple up. That's what happens when you only need to tweak something every year or two.

    Alex / talexb / Toronto

    Thanks PJ. We owe you so much. Groklaw -- RIP -- 2003 to 2013.

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