The Perl that invokes CPAN.pm won't know to look in your local directory, because you haven't told it to look there. You've told it to install new things there, but that's an unrelated setting.

To tell the Perl process that you should also look in that directory for existing modules, it's just like telling any other Perl program:

• You can add -I~/lib to your command line
• You can add use lib, as in:

  #!/usr/bin/perl
  use lib "/path/to/extra/lib";
  use CPAN;  shell;
  [download]

• You can use PERL5LIB, as in

  (for csh-style):
  PERL5LIB=~/lib
  export PERL5LIB
  perl -MCPAN -eshell
  
  (for bourne-shell-style):
  PERL5LIB=~/lib perl -MCPAN -eshell
  [download]

But in summary, it's the same steps you'll need to do to all your local programs, because the Perl CPAN installer is just another Perl program!

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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