By preferences file, do you mean ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm? I am not sure how it can interfere. I am posting the contents of MyConfig.pm below. Everything seems right to me...

$CPAN::Config = {

'build_cache' => q10,

'build_dir' => q/home/andy/perl5/build,

'cache_metadata' => q1,

'cpan_home' => q/home/andy/perl5,

'cpan_version_check' => q1,

'ftp' => q/usr/bin/ftp,

'ftp_proxy' => q[],

'getcwd' => qcwd,

'gpg' => q/usr/bin/gpg,

'gzip' => q/bin/gzip,

'histfile' => q/home/andy/perl5/histfile,

'histsize' => q100,

'http_proxy' => q[],

'inactivity_timeout' => q[0],

'index_expire' => q1,

'inhibit_startup_message' => q[0],

'keep_source_where' => q/home/andy/perl5/sources,

'lynx' => q/usr/bin/lynx,

'make' => q/usr/bin/make,

'make_arg' => q[],

'make_install_arg' => q[],

'makepl_arg' => qPREFIX=/home/andy/perl5,

'ncftp' => q[],

'ncftpget' => q[],

'no_proxy' => q[],

'pager' => q/usr/bin/less,

'prerequisites_policy' => qfollow,

'scan_cache' => qatstart,

'shell' => q/bin/bash,

'tar' => q/bin/tar,

'term_is_latin' => q1,

'unzip' => q/usr/bin/unzip,

'urllist' => [qftp://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/cpan/],

'wget' => q/usr/bin/wget,

};

1;

__END__

In reply to Re^3: Installing Modules Without Root by listanand
in thread Installing Modules Without Root by listanand

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