Re^9: Installing Modules Without Root

I'll be damned… apparently this is completely kosher even though it complains like mad-

rm -rf ~/.cpan ; perl Makefile.PL --bootstrap
Say "yes" if prompted by the cpan shell for configure automatically
make install

So, just do that (maybe more than once, I did it several times before I discovered it was working) and the make install "works." You'll know it worked when this works–

perl -I~/perl5/lib -Mlocal::lib

And when it does, put it into your shell .rc file and source it or rehash.

My "install" was terribly noisy and definitely appeared to fail but I had no trouble installing App::cpanminus and other modules after setting the shell stuff.

Good luck!

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Re^10: Installing Modules Without Root by listanand (Sexton) on May 20, 2010 at 04:43 UTC
OK, one more piece of information as I continue doing what you said. I actually need to install the perl modules on a common data share (huge hard disk) connected to a network of computers. I can only access the hard disk share after logging into one of the computers (obviously) but the deal is that all the computers have very little disk space by themselves - so any processing/build/install that the cpan/make file does, have to be using the space on the share. Hence I use --bootstrap=/my_dir (where my_dir is a directory on a share). So far though I am not seeing any error that says that it is because of insufficient disk space, but I know that this is possible based on my experience with installing other software. Anyway, back to work ! Many thanks again for your help !	[reply]
Re^11: Installing Modules Without Root by listanand (Sexton) on May 20, 2010 at 05:06 UTC
Oh, and just to make things more interesting, my system does not have "rehash". Yawn.. Very tired and sleepy. Will sign back on in a few hours. What a sad end to the day !!	[reply]
Re^12: Installing Modules Without Root by Anonymous Monk on May 20, 2010 at 12:55 UTC
"rehash" command is shell dependent. Some shells, e.g. t?csh, zsh 4 & possibly ksh93, require rehash to be run so that commands installed in $PATH after starting the current shell could be found & run. Some shells have options which would obviate the need to run rehash; bash might be an example (confirm yourself).	[reply]
Re^13: Installing Modules Without Root by listanand (Sexton) on May 20, 2010 at 13:16 UTC
Re^10: Installing Modules Without Root by listanand (Sexton) on May 20, 2010 at 16:42 UTC
Well no luck even after ~20 tries. After I do "perl Makefile.PL --bootstrap", I get the same error. After this, when I do "make install", I just the following one line error. Error: "make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop." Is there a way at all that I could have the scripts do everything on the share (right from creating .cpan to perl5 directories). I tried to pass the directory on share as a parameter to the bootstrap, but that did not work either. It still created .cpan and perl5 directories in my home directory. I get the same errors as before..	[reply]