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on Oct 26, 2003 at 19:45 UTC ( [id://302250]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Oh, and as far as how to install new modules without root access: make a perllib directory under your home directory. Add this directory to your PERL5LIB environment variable (in your shell's rc-file). When you install the new module, there should be a parameter to the "configure" shell script for something along the lines of --basedir or something like that (look at the README and/or INSTALL files that come with the module). You can specify that so that when you run "make install" it installs the code into your personal perl-library directory instead of the root ones.
There's a similar parameter for use with CPAN.pm, but you can look at the docs for it. I don't know off the top of my head, and you're just as capable of reading "man CPAN" as I am. :-D Also, you could just send an email to your system's administrator asking him/her to install these modules for you... they just might do it, if you
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