in reply to Problem installing module in my own home with CPAN.pm

I see sudo(8) mentioned above.

What command are you using to run CPAN.pm? And do you have sudo in your CPAN config file somewhere?

Some people build and test modules as an ordinary user and then sudo for installing them. That's different than just building and installing into a personal library that you add to PERL5LIB. Which are you trying to do?

-xdg

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Re^2: Problem installing module in my own home with CPAN.pm
by blazar (Canon) on Mar 29, 2007 at 12:59 UTC
    What command are you using to run CPAN.pm?
    perl -MCPAN -eshell

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    And do you have sudo in your CPAN config file somewhere?

    (/me is fairly sure to have already checked, but to be sure goes and controls...) nope!

    That's different than just building and installing into a personal library that you add to PERL5LIB. Which are you trying to do?

    The latter!

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      Bingo! Check the docs for ExtUtils::AutoInstall: 

      If you do not wish to put a copy of ExtUtils::AutoInstall under inc/, 
+and are confident that users will have internet access, you may repla
+ce the use lib 'inc'; line with this block of code:

    # ExtUtils::AutoInstall Bootstrap Code, version 7.
    BEGIN{my$p='ExtUtils::AutoInstall';my$v=0.45;$p->VERSION||0>=$v
    or+eval"use $p $v;1"or+do{my$e=$ENV{PERL_EXTUTILS_AUTOINSTALL};
    (!defined($e)||$e!~m/--(?:default|skip|testonly)/and-t STDIN or
    eval"use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;WriteMakefile(PREREQ_PM=>{'$p',$v}
    );1"and exit)and print"==> $p $v required. Install it from CP".
    "AN? [Y/n] "and<STDIN>!~/^n/i and print"*** Installing $p\n"and
    do{if (eval '$>' and lc(`sudo -V`) =~ /version/){system('sudo',
    $^X,"-MCPANPLUS","-e","CPANPLUS::install $p");eval"use $p $v;1"
    ||system('sudo', $^X, "-MCPAN", "-e", "CPAN::install $p")}eval{
    require CPANPLUS;CPANPLUS::install$p};eval"use $p $v;1"or eval{
    require CPAN;CPAN::install$p};eval"use $p $v;1"||die"*** Please
    manually install $p $v from cpan.org first...\n"}}}

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      I really, really detest all the various autoinstallers.

      I'd report the use of AutoInstall as a bug for the module that is failing.

      -xdg

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        Bingo! Check the docs for ExtUtils::AutoInstall:

        [SNIP]

        I really, really detest all the various autoinstallers.

        I'd report the use of AutoInstall as a bug for the module that is failing.

        Ok, I'm not sure if I understand all of what's going on, but point is, I did try to install another module, selected more or less randomly, and it went flawlessly. So... how fun! I was just unfortunate with that particular module... Time to ask the admins a favour! ;-)

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