Another solution might be to install Perl in your home directory where you
have privileges, then to install any module for it.
--Octavian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Flott" <a...@npjh.com>
To: <a...@ice-sa.com>
Cc: "mod_perl list" <modperl@perl.apache.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 11:00 PM
Subject: Re: question on installing perl modules
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, André Warnier wrote:
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.)
When running as a non-root user:
$ cpanm Cwd
!
! Can't write to /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 and /usr/local/bin:
Installing
modules to /home/aflott/perl5
! To turn off this warning, you have to do one of the following:
! - run me as a root or with --sudo option (to install to
/usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 and /usr/local/bin)
| - run me with --local-lib option e.g. cpanm --local-lib=~/perl5
! - Set PERL_CPANM_OPT="--local-lib=~/perl5" environment variable (in
your
shell rc file)
! - Configure local::lib in your shell to set PERL_MM_OPT etc.
!
Therefore, I usually set PERL_CPANM_OPT. It uses INSTALL_BASE (see
ExtUtils::MakeMaker docs) to make a "cleaner" install.
