•Re: Problem with search path and CPAN install

The Perl that invokes CPAN.pm won't know to look in your local directory, because you haven't told it to look there. You've told it to install new things there, but that's an unrelated setting.

To tell the Perl process that you should also look in that directory for existing modules, it's just like telling any other Perl program:

You can add -I~/lib to your command line

You can add use lib, as in:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use lib "/path/to/extra/lib";
use CPAN;  shell;
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You can use PERL5LIB, as in

(for csh-style):
PERL5LIB=~/lib
export PERL5LIB
perl -MCPAN -eshell

(for bourne-shell-style):
PERL5LIB=~/lib perl -MCPAN -eshell
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But in summary, it's the same steps you'll need to do to all your local programs, because the Perl CPAN installer is just another Perl program!

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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Re: •Re: Problem with search path and CPAN install by DearHeart (Initiate) on Aug 22, 2002 at 18:25 UTC
Thanks Randal, I've got some digesting to do! Just beats me how I managed to install the other packages yesterday? e.g. `use Net::POP3; use MIME::QuotedPrint; use MIME::Parser; use DBI; use URI::Escape; use XML::Simple; use Data::Dumper; use Mail::Sender; use MIME::Lite; use MIME::Lite::HTML;` [download] Quite a few of them had dependencies, then I would install those and then re-install would work? It takes a really (Perl) newbie to confuse a hacker!	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: •Re: Problem with search path and CPAN install
by DearHeart (Initiate) on Aug 22, 2002 at 18:25 UTC

use Net::POP3;
use MIME::QuotedPrint;
use MIME::Parser;
use DBI;
use URI::Escape;
use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;
use Mail::Sender;
use MIME::Lite;
use MIME::Lite::HTML;
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