I am attempting to instal a CPAN module named "imager" on a virtual server, but do not have the appropriate permissions to install the module components in the directories that Makefile.PL tries to.

I have attempted various commands: perl Makefile.PL LIB=/path I want, perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/path I want, and even Makefile.PL LIB=/path I want PREFIX=/path I want. These commands were suggested in a thread here titled "CPAN modules And Virtual Servers.", and also in various books.

I have looked through perlman:perlmodinstall posted at perlmonks as well and still haven't found my solution.

I may be blowing it on the path I enter for these commands....but I'm not getting any sort of invalid directory error with the different paths, Makefile just does what it always does and tries to install to directories I have no permission for....I have tried both absolute paths and paths relative to where the Makefile.PL is.

The virtual server is an Apache linux server with perl version is 5.6.0

Any help on how I can do this would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

In reply to Installing CPAN Perl modules on a virtual server (revisted) by jeffpflueger

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