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in thread cpan installing modules outside of the @INC path

The installation dir just looks fine to me. I have more versioned directories from 5.8.3 to 5.8.8. But yours look like come from two different version of Perl. On my machine, 
$ perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i386-linux-thread-multi

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When I peek at the source of cpan, command line the shebang points to /usr/bin/perl, and, 
$ head `which cpan`
#!/usr/bin/perl

eval 'exec /usr/bin/perl  -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
    if 0; # not running under some shell

$ /usr/bin/perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i386-linux-thread-multi

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Both commands gave me the same version of Perl, so the @INC should stay same. Either cpan or manual installation will go to the same installation dir. Could you reproduce those commands on your machine?

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Re^6: cpan installing modules outside of the @INC path
by macrobat (Beadle) on May 01, 2007 at 17:57 UTC
    Actually, changing the source of cpan to /usr/local rather than /usr/bin resulted in the modules being placed in the desired path.

    Our sysadmin (yes I know, what am I doing mucking about with the internals of cpan if I'm not him) installed a locally-compiled version of perl and adjusted the $PATH to read /usr/local first. As soon as you cited the source, I realized that.

    So, thanks again.
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