At 17:03 +0100 8/24/06, David Cantrell wrote: >Run the CPAN shell as root as all will be well.
Idonwannadodat! Although I have root privileges on all machines around here there are still two of use who install things and I much prefer NOT to step on the War Department's toes. She's the one who keeps my Linux OS's up to date and I rarely know whether it's Fedora or Ubuntu because I log in from OS neXt.. My solution is to use the --prefix option in ./configure to point to --prefix $HOME/local In $HOME/local/ there are the usual directories one of which is $HOME/local/bin/ or in some cases $HOME/perl/. I see to it that the PERL5LIB environment variable gets set to one or the other of those. My $PATH is set to look at the $HOME/local/bin/ directory first. The result is that I can compile and install without being root. My stuff does not get any chance to screw up something like a system update from Apple or some Linux distribution. I happily accept the responsibility for fixing things up if such an update requires changes to my stuff. My own perl modules end up in $HOME/local so there can be no accidental naming confusion. The problem is - - - How do I tell cpan to do things that way? - especially when there is a batch of dependencies to worry about. -- --> The message came to Abraham that he would beget a son. Sarah, who was behind the door, laughed. <--
