Namaste Monks.. I have written a set of scripts, on a local system (my laptop) The work fine here.
Now My scripts are required to be deployed in remote system(s) and the thing I am worried about is the availability and the installation of the Libraries that I have used.
The 2 Libraries that are currently in use are "XML::LibXML" and "Spreadsheet::ParseExcel".
I have this idea where I will put them in a "lib" directory in the same project Directory, and the scripts will refer from them. My questions are as follows.
I have installed them in a directory, using the commands as follows from the extracted tar files.



perl Makefile.Pl
make
make test
make install PREFIX=<path_to_lib> LIB=<path_to_lib>


I also see the .pm files being populated in various tree structures in that lib directory.
My question now is , How do i force my scripts to reference this lib directory when It wants to look for the modules?
I am new to perl, from what I searched online I think it has to do with modifying @INC variable, while some solutions say about explicitly including these versions of the library (which I have no clue, as those post included their own perl modules).
so.. How do i force my scripts to use these libraries exclusively, and not throw an error when i deploy them to different systems (all Linux systems with perl 5 or above for sure).

In reply to Packaging Libraries before deploying my Scripts. by ArunMKumar

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