in reply to Package Installation Issues

To see what would happen I installed the XML::Xpath module from the shell but in a designated directory (now /home/myusername/modules/) with "PREFIX=/dir" when I'm running "perl Makefile.PL", but that had no effect.
Did you add /home/myusername/modules to @INC? Do you have read/execute permissions for that directory? See A Guide to Installing Modules (and Simple Module Tutorial)

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I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
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