Being a non-root user I have tried doing this (installing modules into a directory for which I have write permission), and then adding the directory into @INC with

use lib '/path/to/my/dir';

but this doesn't work with modules for which an older version exists. Perl uses the older version (DBI v1.13 instead of DBI v1.30). Is there a way I can specify the version/location I want used instead of letting Perl pick the one it likes? Or, I guess more specifically, can I specify explicitly the order in which directories containing libraries should be considered for inclusion.

UPDATE: Just in case anyone else should ever have this problem, I found out there are multiple instances of perl installed on our system. The default instance called when I ran  perl Makefile.pl  is in a different location than the one I specified in my script. It solved the problem to re-install the module using  /path/to/perl Makefile.pl  when compiling the module.

In reply to Re: Re: Using CPAN to install modules in $HOME? by bnanaboy
in thread Using CPAN to install modules in $HOME? by cshirky

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