Hi Andre !!

If you wanna install modules from CPAN to the lib directory of your choice, then i would suggest , install them manually without using the CPAN Shell...

As, tantaklus mentioned, you can run the MakeFile.PL with PREFIX and lib. That would be better and avoids confusion.


.. Ok, suppose you want to install a module , say HTML::Template from CPAN,

download the tar.gz file from CPAN and extract it, then you do the following, 

perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/andre INSTALLPRIVLIB=/home/andre/lib/per
+l5     INSTALLSCRIPT=/home/andre/bin     INSTALLSITELIB=/home/andre/l
+ib/perl5/site_perl     INSTALLBIN=/home/andre/bin     INSTALLMAN1DIR=
+/home/andre/lib/perl5/man      INSTALLMAN3DIR=/home/andre/lib/perl5/m
+an3
All these in a single line ..ok

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As far as i know, I had given these lines 

export PERL5LIB=/home/andre/lib

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in bashrc .. Then give
source .bashrc so that the changes come to effect. Hope this is useful to you Andre !! If you find any other ways, do post it .. Am sure tantaklus too agrees to this..

Thank you ppl !!
vishi83

A perl Script without 'strict' is like a House without Roof; Both are not Safe;

In reply to Re: Installing modules in personal lib directory - Just canīt make it work by vishi83
in thread Installing modules in personal lib directory - Just canīt make it work by Andre_br

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