Adam Flott wrote:
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, André Warnier wrote:

My problem : I am trying to install a CPAN module, from CPAN, into a "custom" location rather than the system perl locations. This is a hpux system where I have no root access, and in this case the specific module is XML::SAX.

I don't know how to fix your exact problem (may be a bug in
ExtUtils::MakeMaker, CPAN, etc), but you could give cpanm a try:

http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?App::cpanminus

It has made my life significantly easier.

There is also local::lib (http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?local::lib) which
others are quite fond of, but I don't have any personal experience with it.


Hi.
Many thanks for the pointers.  In the principle, it does look like what I need.

But I just read the doc of App::cpanminus.
Do I understand it correctly, that at some point, you need to be root on the 
machine ?
(Because on that target machine, that's something I can definitely never be, even for a short moment.)

I also read the doc of local::lib, and for that one it does not seem that you need to be root, but it seems a bit more complicated to handle.

Reply via email to