Hi monks, I am new to Perl and this community and still learning the amazing language. However, I have run into a roadblock while using CPAN modules. Every CPAN module that I install gets installed properly, but when I use it in my code, the compiler throws an error "Can't locate <module_name.pm in @INC", when @INC contains the path where the module has beebn installed. For example :

1. I installed Term::ANSIColor through CPAN

2. Running the UNIX command "sudo find / -name ANSIColor.pm -print" gives me the following output : 

/home/amit/.cpan/build/Term-ANSIColor-3.02-qAhFw6/blib/lib/Term/ANSICo
+lor.pm
/home/amit/.cpan/build/Term-ANSIColor-3.02-qAhFw6/ANSIColor.pm
/usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/Term/ANSIColor.pm
/usr/share/perl/5.10.1/Term/ANSIColor.pm

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3. Executing the code 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;

BEGIN {
        push @INC,"/usr/share/perl/5.10.1";
      }

use TERM::ANSIColor;
print color("red"), "hello world\n", color("reset");

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gives me the following output 

 Can't locate TERM/ANSIColor.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr
+/local/lib/perl/5.10.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /u
+sr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib
+/site_perl . /usr/share/perl/5.10.1) at ./ansicol.plx line 8.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./ansicol.plx line 8.

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So, the directory which contains the .pm file is already in @INC still I get the error. Please help me out as this is quite frustrating and I have not been able to use any modules because of this error. Thanks!

In reply to Can't find <module> in @INC error by maanu2k

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