CPANPLUS intall and config question

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

whilist installing CPANPLUS in my home dir on a shared server I got the following warning.


### IMPORTANT #####################################################

Since you chose a custom config file location, do not forget to set
the environment variable "PERL5_CPANPLUS_CONFIG" to
"/usr/home/user_name/.cpanplus/config"
before running 'make' or your config will not be detected!

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I opened up ~/.cpanplus/config and it looks like it's an OO module that basiaclly sets a bunch of variables. However, I found no hash key for PERL5_CPANPLUS_CONFIG.

Where then do I set PERL5_CPANPLUS_CONFIG to "/usr/home/user_name/.cpanplus/config"

Any ideas?

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Re: CPANPLUS intall and config question by Sidhekin (Priest) on Sep 14, 2004 at 13:29 UTC
PERL5_CPANPLUS_CONFIG is a shell variable, not a Perl variable. So, set it in your shell: `# If you are using a Bourne shell: PERL5_CPANPLUS_CONFIG=/usr/home/user_name/.cpanplus/config export PERL5_CPANPLUS_CONFIG # If you are using a C shell: setenv PERL5_CPANPLUS_CONFIG /usr/home/user_name/.cpanplus/config` [download] `print "Just another Perl ${\(trickster and hacker)},"` The Sidhekin proves Sidhe did it!	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: CPANPLUS intall and config question by jbodoni (Monk) on Sep 14, 2004 at 13:31 UTC
> the environment variable That's going to depend on which OS you're using. If you'll tell us your OS, we'll tell you how to set the environment variable. I run Windows (yes, I know...), but I think the command for Linux would be "export PERL5_CPANPLUS_CONFIG = /usr/home/user_name/.cpanplus/config" prior to running CPANPLUS. John	[reply]
Re: CPANPLUS intall and config question by Anonymous Monk on Sep 14, 2004 at 13:39 UTC
I'm on BSD and for my shell %echo $SHELL /bin/csh	[reply]
Re: CPANPLUS intall and config question by Anonymous Monk on Sep 14, 2004 at 13:52 UTC
~sigh~ I guess this isn't gonna work anyway... Stop in /usr/home/user_name/.cpanplus/5.8.3/build/HTML-Template-2.7. MAKE INSTALL failed! - No such file or directory in CPANPLUS::Internal +s::Make::_make at Tue Sep 14 09:49:33 2004 at /usr/local/lib/perl5/si +te_perl/5.8.0/CPANPLUS/Internals/Make.pm line 473 An error occurred handling module HTML::Template in CPANPLUS::Internal +s::Install::_install_module at Tue Sep 14 09:49:33 2004 at /usr/local +/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/CPANPLUS/Internals/Install.pm line 156 Installing failed! in CPANPLUS::Backend::install at Tue Sep 14 09:49: +33 2004 at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/CPANPLUS/Backend.pm l +ine 228 Error installing HTML::Template Problem installing one or more modules CPAN Terminal> [download] it dies like this for any module I try to install	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: CPANPLUS intall and config question by Anonymous Monk on Sep 14, 2004 at 18:43 UTC
Turn up verbosity. You probably messed up your permissions.	[reply]