Thanks to bliako in Re^3: To Framework or not to Framework and others in the same threadnode, I am trying to install a module using SSH to shared hosting as this has been disabled in cPanel. I am using PuTTY to connect. The module I'm trying to install as a test is Image::Info because it is small and useful so makes a good test.

The files are fetched OK and I can see them in the /home/shoples1/.cpan/build/ directory but install within CPAN finishes up with this error: 

Configuring S/SR/SREZIC/Image-Info-1.42.tar.gz with Makefile.PL
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Only one of PREFIX or INSTALL_BASE can be given.  Not both.
No 'Makefile' created  SREZIC/Image-Info-1.42.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/shoples1/perl/usr -- NOT OK
Failed during this command:
 SREZIC/Image-Info-1.42.tar.gz                : writemakefile NO -- No
+ 'Makefile' created

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From what I can tell, CPAN is trying to use two different and incompatible configuration methods but I have no idea how to tell it to only use one. From this information I have found conf makepl_arg but CPAN says: 
Unknown shell command 'conf'.

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