Re: [Omaha.pm] Installing into /home/jhannah/lib

["Dan Linder" <dan@linder.org>]

Quite a while back I had to use a more recent version of Perl than what was on the system.   I downloaded the pre-compiled binaries, and extracted them to my user home directory (~/bin, ~/lib, ~/usr, ~/opt, etc).  There were also a number of user environment variables I had to set or adjust (LIB, PATH, etc).  Everything I did was through trial-and-error, but in the end it worked (for me anyway).

Is there an official document covering that or Jays special user-only configuration?

Dan

On Jan 31, 2008 10:21 PM, Jay Hannah <jay@jays.net> wrote:

Wow. That was easy.

Something went terribly wrong with Date::Calc on a server I don't
have root on.

So I installed Date::Calc in my personal lib directory...

$ perl -MCPAN -e install

cpan> o conf makepl_arg "LIB=~/lib INSTALLMAN1DIR=~/man/man1
INSTALLMAN3DIR=~/man/man3"

cpan> o conf commit

cpan> install Date::Calc

$ export PERL5LIB=/home/jhannah/lib

poof! My own personal Date::Calc works great. I'm surprised I've
never been forced to do that before, and am equally surprised at how
easy it was. :)

j



http://www.wellho.net/forum/Perl-Programming/CPAN-Module-without-
root.html


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