Hi Guys,

I've just performed a rebuild that I have perfomed many, many times before, accepting the cpan defaults, and suddenly subsequent modules are not seeing earlier modules, like dependencies. This turns out to be because cpan is mysteriously putting the modules in ~/perl5/lib/perl5, which is not in @INC.

Not surprisingly, subsequent modules don't see their dependencies when installed this way.

"Can't find CPAN::Meta::Requirements.pm" is a common error message.

It looks as though I've not set up cpan correctly.

Just copying the modules to /usr/share/perl/5.14.2/ works for some modules, but clearly not for all.

How to set up cpan correctly?

I'm using Kubuntu 12.04 LTS.

Thanks for your help.

Regards

Steve.

In reply to Why is cpan's option INSTALLDIRS=site putting modules in ~/perl5? by Steve_BZ

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