Ok I was able to get it working by running the EXPORT commands from the command line. I'll work with my service provider to figure out how to automate that.

Thanks so much for your help, I'm up and running!

Scott

Sorry for the late reply, I've been busy. I'm glad to help!

I'll work with my service provider to figure out how to automate that.

Depending on where you want the new library path to take effect, the ways to best do that differ:

If it's the shell, then as choroba pointed out, maybe you are using a shell other than bash and that shell uses a different initialization script into which you need to put the PERL5LIB etc. variable definitions. Try the command echo $SHELL to find out which shell it is <update> is the default shell, which may be different from the currently running shell (thanks for pointing this out, choroba) - you might try a command like pstree $$ to help figure out the currently running shell. </update>

If it's for the CGI scripts, then note that web servers will usually provide their own, quite restricted, environment to CGI scripts. There are several ways to go about telling the CGI script to look in your home directory for modules, but in my experience, if this script is running on a single provider and the directory structure is unlikely to change, using lib from within the CGI script is often easiest. Usually that'll look something like use lib '/home/yourusername/perl5/lib/perl5'; - try echo $HOME in the shell to find out your home directory location. Also note that the web server needs permissions to access that directory (generally 755 for directories and 644 for files), since the web server will likely be running under a different username, such as nobody.

Hi, yes I did add that line to .bashrc and ran the curl command - still not able to run cpanm.

Thanks for helping.

Maybe it needs to be read?

After writing your shell configuration file, be sure to re-read it to get the changed settings into your current shell's environment. Bourne shells use . ~/.bashrc for this, whereas C shells use source ~/.cshrc.

I did add that line to .bashrc

What do you mean by "that line"? Note that you should run the echo 'eval... command I showed at the command line, and not add that line to .bashrc. If you did run that command, you should be able to look at your .bashrc with something like tail ~/.bashrc, and at the end of the file, see several variable definitions like PATH=..., PERL5LIB=..., and PERL_.... If you don't see those, then perhaps something went wrong with the echo 'eval ...' >>~/.bashrc command.

If you do see those variables, and you've logged out and back in again, you should be able to do echo $PATH and somewhere in the output find something similar to /home/yourusername/perl5/bin, and if you do echo $PERL5LIB, see a path perl5/lib/perl5 below your home directory. If you can see those things, then at the moment I don't see why the command to install cpanm should fail - did you get any error messages? If you could show (inside <code>) tags the exact commands you tried and the output you got (including the output of the commands I showed here, like echo $PATH), that would be helpful.

Ok I did misunderstand about the line, I had run it as a command earlier. My .bashrc seems to have what it needs.

export PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT="$PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT:/home/slugger415/perl
+5";
export PERL_MB_OPT="--install_base /home/slugger415/perl5";
export PERL_MM_OPT="INSTALL_BASE=/home/slugger415/perl5";
export PERL5LIB="/home/slugger415/perl5/lib/perl5:$PERL5LIB";
export PATH="/home/slugger415/perl5/bin:$PATH";
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Running the curl command:

[nyssa]$ curl -L https://cpanmin.us | perl - App::cpanminus
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
+  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
+  Speed
100  298k  100  298k    0     0  2305k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:
+-- 2311k
!
! Can't write to /usr/local/share/perl/5.18.2 and /usr/local/bin: Inst
+alling modules to /home/slugger415/perl5
! To turn off this warning, you have to do one of the following:
!   - run me as a root or with --sudo option (to install to /usr/local
+/share/perl/5.18.2 and /usr/local/bin)
!   - Configure local::lib in your existing shell to set PERL_MM_OPT e
+tc.
!   - Install local::lib by running the following commands
!
!         cpanm --local-lib=~/perl5 local::lib && eval $(perl -I ~/per
+l5/lib/perl5/ -Mlocal::lib)
!
App::cpanminus is up to date. (1.7043)
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variable output:

[nyssa]$ echo $PATH
/home/slugger415/.gems/bin:/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/bin/:/usr/local/bin:
+/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
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HMMM I see echo $PERL5LIB produces nothing, though it's obviously in my .bashrc file, so something's amiss here...

and obviously my $PATH is wrong, no idea where it's getting that stuff... not reading .bashrc apparently. Oh and yes I did log out and back in.