On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 08:54:40AM -0400, Emmanuel. M. Decarie wrote:

> I want to install these localy in my account at my ISP and I can't su 
> to root. I tried to install these locally, via the CPAN module, but 
> even if I give to MakeFile.pl a prefix pointing to my user repertory, 
> the CPAN module still insist to install the modules in repertories 
> for which I don't have any permissions. And since I can't su to root, 
> I don't know what to do.
> 
> This is the content of my CPAN configuration:
> 
> cpan> o conf
> CPAN::Config options and /home/emm/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm:

>      make               /usr/bin/make
>      make_arg
>      make_install_arg
>      makepl_arg         /home/emm/bin

Try setting makepl_arg to:

PREFIX=/home/emm/

Ronald

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