I keep losing when I try to use the CPAN module install in my home directory. The failure occurs when installing the documentation. In my ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pl file I have 
'makepl_arg' => q[LIB=/home/dthroop/lib/perl INSTALLMAN1DIR=/home/dthr
+oop/lib/perl/man/man1 INSTALLMAN3DIR=/home/dthroop/lib/perl/man/man3 
+INSTALLSCRIPT=/home/dthroop/lib/perl/bin INSTALLBIN=/home/dthroop/lib
+/perl/bin],
  'mbuildpl_arg' => q[--lib=/home/dthroop/lib/perl --installman1dir=/h
+ome/dthroop/lib/perl/man/man1 --installman3dir=/home/dthroop/lib/perl
+/man/man3 --installscript=/home/dthroop/lib/perl/bin --installbin=/ho
+me/dthroop/lib/perl/bin],

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But when I try and install, e.g. Config::Simple; 
% perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan[1]> install Config::Simple
...
Appending installation info to /home/dthroop/lib/perl/i386-linux-threa
+d-multi/perllocal.pod
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+!!
ERROR: Can't create '/usr/local/share/man/man3'
Do not have write permissions on '/usr/local/share/man/man3'

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I thought I'd told CPAN to install it in my home directory. Clearly, I need to put some other parameter in my config file. But what, where?

In reply to CPAN modules losing in home directory by throop

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