I've been struggling to not mess up my linux (Ubuntu 7.10) installation like I've previously used to do. Now, with a rather fresh install of Ubuntu (and updates), I wanted to avoid having issues with aptitude and cpan running in each others way.

So, I've set PERL5LIB to ~/perl5lib and cpan seems happy to run without sudo. Somehow I've got a helping of ~/share with ~/share/perl/5.8.8 and a lot of the modules I've installed or upgraded with cpan seems to go there, but well, it seems ok.

Now, I wanted to install SQL::Translator, but the install bails out complaining:

Sorry, PREFIX is not supported.  See the Module::Build
documentation for 'destdir' or 'install_base' instead.

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Well, I added a ~/.modulebuildrc file with sole content:

install  --install_path /home/kai/perl5lib

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but the same "Sorry, PREFIX ..." results.

I need some suggestions here now, or some better (super|google)search-terms than I've managed to come up with myself.

Also, I've tried to set --install_path to the same as PERL5LIB, is that wise? silly? enough?

Update:
Thanks for all the good sugestions. They will probably help, but I'm not entirely there yet, so more suggestions are still welcome.

Update 2:
I've got SQL::Translator installed using 

look SQL::Translator
perl Build.PL --install_base /home/kai/perl5lib
./Build test
./Build install

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although I had to work my way backwards through a couple of dependencies that also barked the same way.
I'd really like to have .modulebuildrc correctly set up and working.
Now to new searches...
Update 3:
The version I'm using:
perl -MModule::Build -e 'print "$Module::Build::VERSION \n";'
0.2808

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In reply to What to tell Module::Build, and where? by stiller

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