Installing Modules Without Root

listanand has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: Installing Modules Without Root by superfrink (Curate) on Aug 04, 2009 at 21:35 UTC
I wrote a howto on setting up a custom module directory a while ago. Also have a look at Life with CPAN	[reply]
Re^2: Installing Modules Without Root by listanand (Sexton) on Aug 05, 2009 at 21:27 UTC
Dear Perl Monks, Thank you very much for your timely reply. This is turning out to be much harder than I thought! I followed the directions given at: http://sial.org/howto/perl/life-with-cpan/non-root/ After this I go to the CPAN shell and said "install LWP" and at the very end I get an error (below). What am I missing? ============ERROR============ Failed 27/37 test scripts, 27.03% okay. 205/532 subtests failed, 61.47% okay. make: *** test Error 2 /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK Running make install make test had returned bad status, won't install without force ============END OF ERROR============	[reply]
Re^3: Installing Modules Without Root by listanand (Sexton) on Aug 06, 2009 at 14:15 UTC
PerlMonks, Any thoughts on this? I have spent a lot of time on this seemingly trivial issue, with no success :( Thanks again.	[reply]
Re^4: Installing Modules Without Root by listanand (Sexton) on Aug 06, 2009 at 15:19 UTC
Re^4: Installing Modules Without Root by Anonymous Monk on Aug 06, 2009 at 14:22 UTC
Re^2: Installing Modules Without Root by listanand (Sexton) on Aug 06, 2009 at 16:08 UTC
OK so now I have another question :) I am in fact going to have to be using a network of computers for running my experiments (and I do not have root on any of them). I don't want to go around installing Perl Modules on every single one of them. What is an efficient way of doing it? Thanks yet again.	[reply]
Re^3: Installing Modules Without Root by superfrink (Curate) on Aug 06, 2009 at 17:07 UTC
Have a look at Re: Distributing perl with perl scripts.	[reply]
Re^4: Installing Modules Without Root by listanand (Sexton) on Aug 07, 2009 at 17:35 UTC
Re: Installing Modules Without Root by FunkyMonk (Chancellor) on Aug 04, 2009 at 23:55 UTC
Yes, even you can use CPAN Heh. Twice in a day :-)	[reply]
Re: Installing Modules Without Root by bichonfrise74 (Vicar) on Aug 04, 2009 at 22:46 UTC
I think this what you are looking for Installing Modules as non-root.	[reply]
Re: Installing Modules Without Root by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Aug 04, 2009 at 22:30 UTC
One of the links given already by superfrink mentions it but it's buried and it shouldn't be. To me it's easily the best way to handle this need: local::lib.	[reply]
Re^2: Installing Modules Without Root by Your Mother (Archbishop) on May 13, 2010 at 18:04 UTC
IIRC you probably have a `~/perl` or a CPAN preferences file that is interfering, or both. Google around a little before just deleting those but I recognize the error you're getting and I think that's how I solved it before. (update: I apparently replied to my own node instead of Re^2: Installing Modules Without Root.)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Installing Modules Without Root by listanand (Sexton) on May 19, 2010 at 17:04 UTC
By preferences file, do you mean ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm? I am not sure how it can interfere. I am posting the contents of MyConfig.pm below. Everything seems right to me... $CPAN::Config = { 'build_cache' => q10, 'build_dir' => q/home/andy/perl5/build, 'cache_metadata' => q1, 'cpan_home' => q/home/andy/perl5, 'cpan_version_check' => q1, 'ftp' => q/usr/bin/ftp, 'ftp_proxy' => q[], 'getcwd' => qcwd, 'gpg' => q/usr/bin/gpg, 'gzip' => q/bin/gzip, 'histfile' => q/home/andy/perl5/histfile, 'histsize' => q100, 'http_proxy' => q[], 'inactivity_timeout' => q[0], 'index_expire' => q1, 'inhibit_startup_message' => q[0], 'keep_source_where' => q/home/andy/perl5/sources, 'lynx' => q/usr/bin/lynx, 'make' => q/usr/bin/make, 'make_arg' => q[], 'make_install_arg' => q[], 'makepl_arg' => qPREFIX=/home/andy/perl5, 'ncftp' => q[], 'ncftpget' => q[], 'no_proxy' => q[], 'pager' => q/usr/bin/less, 'prerequisites_policy' => qfollow, 'scan_cache' => qatstart, 'shell' => q/bin/bash, 'tar' => q/bin/tar, 'term_is_latin' => q1, 'unzip' => q/usr/bin/unzip, 'urllist' => [qftp://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/cpan/], 'wget' => q/usr/bin/wget, }; 1; __END__	[reply]
Re^4: Installing Modules Without Root by Your Mother (Archbishop) on May 19, 2010 at 18:47 UTC
Re^5: Installing Modules Without Root by listanand (Sexton) on May 19, 2010 at 20:03 UTC
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Re^4: Installing Modules Without Root - Need help ASAP ! by listanand (Sexton) on May 19, 2010 at 18:28 UTC
Re^5: Installing Modules Without Root - Need help ASAP ! by Your Mother (Archbishop) on May 19, 2010 at 18:58 UTC
Re^2: Installing Modules Without Root by listanand (Sexton) on May 13, 2010 at 16:18 UTC
OK, so now I am trying to use local::lib to install the modules. However as soon as I run the command " perl Makefile.PL --bootstrap=/my_directory_of_choice" , I get the following message: Any suggestions? == Error Begin == * Checking for Perl dependencies... Core Features - ExtUtils::MakeMaker ...too old. (6.30_01 < 6.31) - ExtUtils::Install ...too old. (1.33 < 1.43) - ExtUtils::CBuilder ...missing. - ExtUtils::ParseXS ...missing. - Module::Build ...missing. (would need 0.28) - CPAN ...too old. (1.7602 < 1.82) ==> Auto-install the 6 mandatory module(s) from CPAN? y y * Dependencies will be installed the next time you type 'make'. (You may need to do that as the 'root' user.) * Module::AutoInstall configuration finished. * Installing dependencies... * You are not allowed to write to the directory '/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8'; the installation may fail due to insufficient permissions. ==> Should we try to re-execute the autoinstall process with 'sudo'? y y * Trying to re-execute the autoinstall process with 'sudo'... Password: =Error End==	[reply]


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