Re: Funny Little Permissions Issue on Ubuntu

You may have to remove|edit any existing CPAN configuration lying around which causes the cpan shell to install things under /root/perl. Specifics would be provided by those who have used cpan more extensively.

If you are installing things on system wide basis, then for all practical purposes do not install in /root or include /root in @INC.

Do you see /root/perl in @INC when you run perl as mere mortal, after fiddling with PERLLIB? Does your shell suppose to source /etc/profile (bash & zsh do; could not find it in tcsh man page)?

BTW, your @INC seems to be missing architecture specific directories. Did you change install settings to not to create, or install in, those directories?

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Re^2: Funny Little Permissions Issue on Ubuntu by FunkyMonk (Bishop) on Apr 22, 2009 at 22:04 UTC
BTW, your @INC seems to be missing architecture specific directories. That's the way Debian does it, and hence Ubuntu does it that way too.	[reply]
Re^3: Funny Little Permissions Issue on Ubuntu by parv (Parson) on Apr 23, 2009 at 02:23 UTC
Thanks for the explanation. (I would need to look further if\|how I could get rid of architecture specific directories myself when I am installing in my own space on CentOS 5 & FreeBSD 6\|7.)	[reply]