in reply to Re: CPAN won't install into personal directory; probably an o conf problem
in thread CPAN won't install into personal directory; probably an o conf problem

Thanks! that worked wonderfully.

BTW, something I found only through trial and error: I downloaded and untarred local::lib, and connected to the directory it created ( local-lib-1.008004). I created the makefile: 

perl Makefile.PL --bootstrap=/home/dthroop

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and followed the directions.

When all was said and done, this resulted in 

$ cpan
> install Data::Table

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placing its code in 
/home/dthroop/perl5/lib/perl5/Data/Table.pm

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