Got a call from a client today. I had installed some modules in a local $HOME/perl_lib library. You know:
    perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=$HOME/perl_lib

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or LIB=...

Seems their ISP (finally) updated their perl installation which broke something. Namely, the local HTML::LinkExtor no longer extracted links.

So my question is this: I've got quite a few modules installed in my local lib. I don't have the source packages still around. What's an easy way to remove just a few modules from my local lib (so that I'll use the site-wide versions instead)? I can go in and delete the module, but it's not very clean (e.g. when there's a binary part to the module).

I often will just install and use my own version of Perl in ISPs. I tried that, but the install croaks due to the ISPs NFS setup:

$perl -MFindBin
opendir(./..): Permission denied at /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/FindBin.pm l
+ine 97

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Doesn't Brian Ingerson have a new module that can find the newest version of a module in @INC?

In reply to Managine local modules by moseley

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