I'm not the OP but I have a related question.
I messed up my module installation(that I think I can fix) and am now looking for smarter ways to handle my Linux Perl installation. I've seen instructions for installing multiple versions of Perl, but how does that affect my ability to use CPAN or CPANPLUS?
One document for manual module installation indicated to edit Makefile.PL with the non-standard path where I would store modules. Doing that for each manually installed module would be a pain. How would CPAN/CPANPLUS handle this?
Overall what I want to do is leave the system Perl installation alone, install another version somewhere on the filesystem(probably in /opt/perl.ver ) and from that point on install as much as possible (modules)in my home directory.

In reply to Re^3: delete cpan files? (Linux) by gctaylor1
in thread delete cpan files? by notgeekenough

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