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in reply to RE: Re: A detailed How-To for locally installing modules
in thread A detailed How-To for locally installing modules

If you want to use CPAN as a non-privleged user, you'll also have to create a local copy of CPAN/Config.pm in $HOME/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm and use it to override the default paths for the CPAN installation, otherwise you won't even be able to start the CPAN interface.