I have failed twice to get this to work. I find some niche module on CPAN, which is just a single .pm file containing perl code. Everything looks good, functions are exported, etc. The two packages are initialized thusly:

use Beep;

and, in another attempt in seperate file:

use Local:TeeOutput;

The common point here is that I don't know how to install these in a nice place, so have been testing them out by putting e.g., Beep.pm in the pwd and TeeOutput.pm in ./Local/ . This was what everything I found online told me would work. It does not. I get the following errors when trying to access functions clearly exported within these files:

Undefined subroutine &main::beep called at ./beep.pl line 5.

Previously I had figured out how to make my perl program find the /Local/ directory I had created, and now that I'm writing this I can't repeat that, so my new problem for that case is that @INC seems to be ignoring it's own contents?

Can't locate TeeOutput.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /(my pwd)/ ./ /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at ./test3.pl line 4. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./test3.pl line 4.

I can post more info, but I have a feeling I'm just doing something very obviously dumb to anyone who knows what's going on.

Thanks for your wonderful site!

In reply to Installing perl-only .pm modules locally?? by emmiesix

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