Hi, I'm a newbie when it comes to perl and as such my knowledge is limited. So please for give me if I sound vague. My problem is that, I been trying to install and configure and opensource (Symphero) ecommerce package ( perl based ) for sometime now and without success onto my ISP server. Part of this problem is due to the fact that it requires specific modules from http://www.cpan.org to be compiled and installed. But due to access/permission i'm not able to install them to the appropriate directories. Having searched through the cpan site, I found that by entering :- perl -e 'print join("\n",@INC)' This should print the hard-coded @INC which perl is looking for. Through my telnet login I tried this and got:- /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 No reference is made to my home directory. Upon further search of the CPAN site i found that symlinks, aliases, or shortcuts can be created. But the techies on the ISP hosting company helpdesk inform me this is not possible with '@INC'. But however they do mention that Perl has commands for adding extra paths to @INC which I could use at the top of the scripts and have the module local to my home directory. My problem here is being new to perl I don't know what i'm looking for or how to do this. Please can anybody assist in resolving this problems. Thanks to all in advance. Hansraj

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