I'm going to assume that you have a hosting account on a *ix box with shell access. Log in, do ls -la and you may see a dir called '.cpan' (this should be in your account home directory).

You want a file in '.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm'

Here's mine: 

$CPAN::Config = {
  'build_cache' => q[10],
  'build_dir' => q[/home/myself/.cpan/build],
  'cache_metadata' => q[0],
  'cpan_home' => q[/home/myself/.cpan],
  'dontload_hash' => {  },
  'ftp' => q[/usr/bin/ftp],
  'ftp_proxy' => q[],
  'getcwd' => q[cwd],
  'gpg' => q[],
  'gzip' => q[/usr/bin/gzip],
  'histfile' => q[/home/myself/.cpan/histfile],
  'histsize' => q[100],
  'http_proxy' => q[],
  'inactivity_timeout' => q[0],
  'index_expire' => q[1],
  'inhibit_startup_message' => q[0],
  'keep_source_where' => q[/home/myself/.cpan/sources],
  'lynx' => q[/usr/local/bin/lynx],
  'make' => q[/usr/bin/make],
  'make_arg' => q[],
  'make_install_arg' => q[],
  'makepl_arg' => q[PREFIX=/home/myself LIB=/home/myself/lib],
  'ncftp' => q[],
  'ncftpget' => q[],
  'no_proxy' => q[],
  'pager' => q[more],
  'prerequisites_policy' => q[ask],
  'scan_cache' => q[atstart],
  'shell' => q[/bin/bash],
  'tar' => q[/usr/bin/tar],
  'term_is_latin' => q[1],
  'unzip' => q[],
  'urllist' => [q[ftp://mirrors.phenominet.com/pub/CPAN/], q[ftp://mir
+rors.jtlnet.com/CPAN/], q[ftp://mirrors.24-7-solutions.net/pub/CPAN/]
+, q[ftp://mirror.sit.wisc.edu/pub/CPAN/]],
  'wget' => q[/usr/local/bin/wget],
};
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With this all in place.. you can just run cpan to install modules! Woohoo!! cpan install The::Module::I::Want

In reply to Re: Where to unpack CPAN modules by leocharre
in thread Where to unpack CPAN modules by throop

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