[CentOS] installing perl-CPAN without perl-local-lib

[Nicolas Thierry-Mieg]

On 06/04/2018 12:35 PM, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> I'm still working on getting my brand new Centos 7 mail server working and I'm
> having problems with Perl.
> 
> Most of the modules are available as RPM's which was straight forward.
> However, MIME::Parser, Net::SCP and Net::SSH aren't.
> 
> In order to get these working I installed the perl-CPAN rpm and then installed
> the modules above.  Doing this, installed perl-local-lib.noarch as a
> dependancy.
> 
> The problem now is that when I used CPAN to the above modules they installed
> without errors, but were only available to the root user.
> 
> I can't uninstall perl-local-lib without uninstalling perl-CPAN and I can't
> install perl-CPAN without installing perl-local-lib.
> 
> Any ideas on how I can get to do the simple task of installing these modules
> system wide?

You might want to build rpms for these perl modules, not so hard with 
cpanspec, eg:

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/build-perl-module-rpm-file-with-cpanspec-on-rhel-centos/