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in thread Find file name

thanks, tried this but got Can't locate File/Find/Rule.pm in @INC guess that means its not available on our system. I'm new to this and I don't know how to tell what libraries/packages are installed

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Re: Re: Re: Find file name
by broquaint (Abbot) on Nov 11, 2003 at 17:10 UTC
    If you've got privileged access to your machine then you can simply do 
    perl -MCPAN -e 'install q[File::Find::Rule]'

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    to install the module. However, if you're an unprivileged user you just need to set the path to somewhere that you can write to e.g 
    shell> perl -MCPAN -e shell

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.65)
ReadLine support enabled

cpan> o conf makepl_arg PREFIX="/your/path/to/perl/lib"

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    Or if you're installing from an unpacked tarball, just pass the PREFIX parameter to the Makefile.PL e.g 
    perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/your/path/to/perl/lib

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    Then just add /your/path/to/perl/lib to @INC either through lib or the environment variable $PERL5LIB e.g 
    use lib '/your/path/to/perl/lib';

use File::Find::Rule;

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    HTH

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      I'm definately an unprivileged user and 
      shell> perl -MCPAN -e shell

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.65)
ReadLine support enabled

cpan> o conf makepl_arg PREFIX="/your/path/to/perl/lib"

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      - what is this doing exactly ? I am interested but I doubt whether I could do this anyway for fear of messing the system up. Thanks
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        It just passes the PREFIX to the Makefile.PL when the module is being built automatically, as described in the manpage: 
        makepl_arg         arguments passed to 'perl Makefile.PL

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        Which allows you to install module via CPAN to a user-defined path.
        HTH

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