Corion, the recommendation is surely solid, coming from the likes of you and seconded by the likes of LanX, but what I am gleaning from this is very disturbing.

I have long wanted to get into Linux, but my hobby time has drifted away from those kinds of projects and my career work has been astoundingly Windows-based for several decades now. I must therefore confess an unusually deep case of ignorance regarding most things Linux. Please keep that in mind as you parse through my question and concern.

It sounds to me like you are saying that I, were I a Linux sysadmin, notably on this version of CentOS, cannot establish a systemwide Perl installation for all users to use (including those coming in through a web site hosted on this server) which has any CPAN modules installed. I can only use the ones that are available on my Linux distribution.

Rather, it appears you are recommending I set up a special Perl installation for each user on this system, or that they must set up their own. So if I have 100 users plus myself, I need to support 101 potentially varying installations of Perl.

Please tell me I am misreading this.

In reply to Re^2: How to install CPAN modules by marinersk
in thread How to install CPAN modules by rammohan

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