Need to install module, ftp access only

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Re: Need to install module, ftp access only by jettero (Monsignor) on Jul 21, 2008 at 19:57 UTC
If you install each dependency into an alternate dir, then you'd only have the one dir to push... I'm not sure that makes it any easier though. Do you have rsync or anything? I believe ftp can be made to do recursive puts, probably filezilla supports it rather well... I imagine you could also grep your site install directories off the @INC so CPAN'd install the dependency tree into your alternate location (once specified) automatically. -Paul	[reply]
Re: Need to install module, ftp access only by pc88mxer (Vicar) on Jul 21, 2008 at 22:16 UTC
The usual trick is to write a CGI script which does it for you. For instance, you could try: `#!/usr/bin/perl system("perl -MCPAN -e 'install WWW::Mechanize'");` [download] This will work if the install procedure can be done non-interactively. You might have to configure your `~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm` first.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Need to install module, ftp access only by Anonymous Monk on Jul 21, 2008 at 22:51 UTC
That was my first thought... mkdir /.cpan: Permission denied at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 1258	[reply]
Re^3: Need to install module, ftp access only by sgifford (Prior) on Jul 22, 2008 at 03:00 UTC
It's trying to install the module somewhere you don't have permission, so you simply need to tell the CPAN module to install it somewhere else. You can either set up an appropriate configuration file, as pc88mxer describes, or else set the `PREFIX` environment variable to tell the CPAN module where you want it to install the module. See Re^2: Perl module for a sample script. -- sgifford's Web page	[reply] [d/l]