I am a beginner in perl. I have been trying to install perl modules XML::RegExp in my local directory. I followed a lot of literature on the web. I used the sequence given by all of them: 1. Download and untar and unzip the module 2. cd to the directory /home/daitav/xml/temp/XML-RegExp-0.03 3. perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/daitav/xml/temp With this I tried LIB=/home/daitav/xml/temp once and INSTALLDIRS=/temp options at different time. 4. make 5. make test 6. make install. When I executed the last command I am always getting an error that I am unable to write to the the place where actual perl libraries are sitting and this does not point to my local directory(I donot recall the path but these were what I found to be present in the @INC variable). I tried finding out installation directory after using PREFIX=/home/daitav/xml/temp. I got an 'undefined' for the installuserbindirs. If I use the INSTALLDIR cmd line option then I get make error that pure_temp_install rule was not found by pure_install which is called in Makemaker.pm. I am unable to figure out where I am going wrong or what I doing incorrect? Could you please let me know what is the mistake I have committed? I am in an urgent need to use this. Looking forward to your early responses, Thanks, Viswa.

In reply to Query about installing perl modules in local directory by viswa79

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