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Re: Installing modules locallyby aspeer (Initiate) |
on Jul 29, 2006 at 06:10 UTC ( [id://564498]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I had this problem when installing modules locally also. I wrote a small 'helper' module that I include from the command line, or in my scripts, which customises @INC for me by reading in a config file that contains a list of all directories I want added.
The module looks for a file /etc/perl5lib.pm (or %windir%/perl5lib.pm) and reads in a array ref of directories from that file. It then massages @INC to include all relevant directories under those paths using hints from Config.pm about sitelib/privlib/archlib/vendorlib etc. without them needing to be explicitly declared. You can download the file from here - it is too hackish to upload to CPAN as a module. The /etc/perl5lib.pm file is in Data::Dumper format - it looks like this:
Then to include all the above directories *and* any relevant vendorlib/sitelib/archlib etc directories under them in which modules may have been installed, run
Or include in your script:
I did not know about the perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=<path> LIB=<path> option mentioned above though - that looks like a better idea if the modules are not already installed.
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