Re^4: Installing Modules Without Root

That does look good but I think the advice stands. Strangely enough I just had to go through this on the weekend so I have a "better" set of tips:

Unset/clear all perl ENV entries: env | grep -i perl and clear them all out
rm -rf ~/.cpan
rm -rf ~/.cpanplus
rm -rf ~/perl
- And maybe: rm -rf ~/perl5 for good measure; clean start
Start over: cd ; rm -rf local-lib*
lwp-download http://URL-to... local::lib Download link
tar xpfvz local-lib*
cd local-lib...
perl Makefile.PL --bootstrap
make test && make install
Follow the "bootstrapping" advice about how to get the new stuff visible in your shell. You might have to manually edit the .rc file of your shell of choice to make sure you don't have duplicate declarations.
- This provides those in whatever dialect your shell is: cd ; perl -Iperl5/lib/perl5 -Mlocal::lib
source .yourshrc
Go, go, go.

Then I highly recommend installing App::cpanminus and favoring its cpanm over cpan or cpanp. It's much lighter and quicker than the others.

cpan -i App::cpanminus
rehash
Take it for a tour and get lots of goodies: cpanm Task::Kensho or just a quick spin around the block to see it work at doing nothing in particular: cpanm Nothing::Tiny

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Re^5: Installing Modules Without Root by listanand (Sexton) on May 19, 2010 at 20:03 UTC
Thank you so much for the detailed instructions ! But, life is not so simple :) I got as far as doing "perl Makefile.PL --bootstrap". Towards the end, I get the error below. By the way, don't I have to configure CPAN before running makefile.pl? When I try going to CPAN shell, and running one of the 2 selected commands below, it seems like, I will need to configure all other parameters also... ==Error Begin== You have not configured a urllist and do not allow connections to the internet to get a list of mirrors. If you wish to get a list of CPAN mirrors to pick from, use this command o conf init connect_to_internet_ok urllist If you do not wish to get a list of mirrors and would prefer to set your urllist manually, use just this command instead o conf init urllist ==Error End==	[reply]
Re^6: Installing Modules Without Root by listanand (Sexton) on May 19, 2010 at 20:08 UTC
Oh and by the way, is it "perl Makefile.PL --bootstrap" or "perl Makefile.PL --bootstrap=/my_dir"?	[reply]
Re^7: Installing Modules Without Root by Your Mother (Archbishop) on May 19, 2010 at 20:56 UTC
"perl Makefile.PL --bootstrap" I cut and pasted the commands I gave (with adjustments for the ...s) so do them just that way. I didn't have to configure cpan but I'm not actually sure that's because my machine has a "special" state or because you're skipping one of the steps or something is wonky. It still sounds like your env has ghosts of some sort. I'd start from scratch again. It should be just a couple minutes to run it all from the top. Remember before running the Makefile.PL -- `env \| grep -i perl` -- should show NO variables set. And you should get these as being non-existent: `ls ~/.cpan # ls: /home/moo/.cpan: No such file or directory ls ~/.cpanp # ls: /home/moo/.cpanp: No such file or directory ls ~/.cpanm # ls: /home/moo/.cpanm: No such file or directory ls ~/perl5 # ls: /home/moo/perl5: No such file or directory ls ~/perl # ls: /home/moo/perl: No such file or directory` [download] I'll try this on one of my boxes I know causes problems tonight and report if it is indeed "correct" and amend otherwise.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^8: Installing Modules Without Root by Anonymous Monk on May 19, 2010 at 22:42 UTC
Re^8: Installing Modules Without Root by listanand (Sexton) on May 19, 2010 at 22:56 UTC
Re^9: Installing Modules Without Root by Your Mother (Archbishop) on May 20, 2010 at 03:06 UTC
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