I am using Strawberry Perl, which resides at "C:/Strawberry" When I install modules via CPAN, for some reason best known to itself, it installs them in "C:/Users/Chris Brown/Perl5/lib/perl5" (For example, PDF::API2 can be found in "...perl5/PDF/API2"

I have tried setting the "Perl5lib" path via My Computer / Enviroment variables to that shown in the first part above (It also showed my spaced name as "Chris~1" (DOS?), but changing it to the full name made no difference. I have also put the path in the main progrem:

use lib qw(C:/Users/Chris Brown/perl5/lib/perl5);\n use PDF::API2;

I have also tried combinations such as "perl5", "perl5/lib" but none of them work. The script simply cannot locate the library, asking me if I need to install it !!

I don'tknow what to try next to get it to run. NB: Perl is installed correctly as it will run files from the shebang (#!/usr/bin/perl) It's just the CPAN modules it can't locate. (I even tried >use lib qw(C:/Users/Chris Brown/perl5/lib/perl5/PDF/API2.pm) but got nothing!)

HELP !!

In reply to Cannot access CPAN Installs by cristofayre

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