Re: question on installing perl modules

Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> 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" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Cc: "mod_perl list" <[email protected]>
> 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. 
> 
> 
local::lib seems to work when I try it on one of my own test systems.
I will try cpanm later today, and then I can try them again on the customer system to 
which I do not have root access.
Anyway, I consider myself helped.

Thanks for the tips.