On Dec 30, 2009, at 16:05, Shankar wrote: > On Dec 30, 9:39 am, shlo...@iglu.org.il (Shlomi Fish) wrote: >> On Wednesday 30 Dec 2009 08:12:24 Shankar wrote: > > Thanks a lot for the replies. > I'll check to see if I may update perl. > > If I'm unable, is it okay to do the following: > 1. Run the first two steps of the installation process (perl > Makefile.PL and make) for each module I manually uncompress the > tarball and install. This populates the blib/lib directory for each > module. > 2. Simply manually put all the various contents of each of the above > populated blib/lib directories (one for each module I install) into a > common "lib" directory that I'll create on my home directory. > 3. Give the above commnon "lib" directory higher precedence than the > default perl paths. > > Will the above effectively accomplish what is needed to use these > modules from my home directory?
Yes it should - but this is not a sustainable practice, you won't be able to install dozens of modules this way. I strongly recommend looking into local::lib which will help you automate this process. It is designed for the installation of modules when you don't have admin rights. http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/local-lib Jeremiah -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
