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

Gary Stainburn gary at ringways.co.uk
Mon Jun 4 12:26:51 UTC 2018


On Monday 04 June 2018 12:30:11 Pete Biggs wrote:
> There's lots of info on it on the web. For the definitive answers look
> long the local::lib pages on CPAN - basically there are environment
> variables you can set to say where things are to be installed.
>
> Also, I think when you first run CPAN one of the questions it asks is
> where to install things - if you let CPAN configure itself it defaults
> to a local install. You can re-run the CPAN initial config by doing
>
>   o conf init
>
> at the CPAN prompt.  You may have to clean up your .bashrc as well.
>
> This is probably the most useful link I found
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32726324/i-installed-a-module-successfu
>lly-with-cpan-but-perl-cant-find-it-why

I simply removed the bashrc entries and that was enough to let me install the 
modules system wide.  I will also investigate cpanspec when I get more chance



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