Re: question on installing perl modules

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.