in reply to Installing Modules Without Root

I wrote a howto on setting up a custom module directory a while ago. Also have a look at Life with CPAN

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Re^2: Installing Modules Without Root
by listanand (Sexton) on Aug 05, 2009 at 21:27 UTC
    Dear Perl Monks,

    Thank you very much for your timely reply.

    This is turning out to be much harder than I thought! I followed the directions given at: http://sial.org/howto/perl/life-with-cpan/non-root/

    After this I go to the CPAN shell and said "install LWP" and at the very end I get an error (below). What am I missing?

    ============ERROR============
    Failed 27/37 test scripts, 27.03% okay. 205/532 subtests failed, 61.47% okay. make: *** test Error 2 /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK Running make install make test had returned bad status, won't install without force
    ============END OF ERROR============

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      PerlMonks,

      Any thoughts on this? I have spent a lot of time on this seemingly trivial issue, with no success :(

      Thanks again.

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        Anonymous monk said "force install LWP".

        Thank you very much ! That solved my problem. What a relief. Phew !

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Re^2: Installing Modules Without Root
by listanand (Sexton) on Aug 06, 2009 at 16:08 UTC
    OK so now I have another question :)

    I am in fact going to have to be using a network of computers for running my experiments (and I do not have root on any of them). I don't want to go around installing Perl Modules on every single one of them. What is an efficient way of doing it?

    Thanks yet again.

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        OK, playing with it still. Thanks much.
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