Another approach to this issue:

Isn't Date::Calc in core? It should be available with your standard perl installation, regardless you use Linux or M$-Dog or something else.

If it is not there for any strange reasons consider this (after download in the unpacked src directory of Date::Calc):

perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/path/to/your/lib

Say then:

 make && make test && make install

Then, in your app say:

use lib q(/path/to/your/lib);
use Date::Calc;

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And i can't see any security problems installing modules as root. How else should this be done in the default places?. E.g. on my Mac:

Karls-Mac-mini:~ karl$ perl -e 'print join(qq(\n), @INC);'
/sw/lib/perl5
/sw/lib/perl5/darwin
/Library/Perl/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level
/Library/Perl/5.12
# and many more...

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And:

Karls-Mac-mini:~ karl$ ls -hlrt /Library/Perl/5.12
total 216
-r--r--r--   1 root  wheel    31K 26 Feb  2011 PPI.pm
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel    33B 11 Okt  2011 AppendToPath
-r--r--r--   1 root  wheel   543B  4 Apr  2012 oo.pm
-r--r--r--   1 root  wheel    20K 18 Jun 13:32 Carp.pm
-r--r--r--   1 root  wheel   8,9K  9 Sep 03:15 strictures.pm
-r--r--r--   1 root  wheel   946B 11 Sep 20:24 ok.pm
-r--r--r--   1 root  wheel    23K 23 Okt 17:27 Moo.pm
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel   102B 27 Okt 13:46 B
drwxr-xr-x   7 root  wheel   238B 27 Okt 13:48 DateTime
# and many more...

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As you can see everything belongs to root:wheel but the rest can use it anyway. This is the default: Stuff belongs to root:wheel in that directories but is used under your UID if you call it.

A thing one might think about is: I don't want to mess up my default @INC. Then use PREFIX as described above.

BTW: Consider to take a look at Datetime. And trust toolic.

As always, i hope i didn't miss something.

Regards, Karl

P.S.: I did something wrong, s***t. If installing as root, make install as root , or root does it himself, sorry for that - sink before you type ;-)

In reply to Re: Simple perl question by karlgoethebier
in thread Simple perl question by nua7

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