I guess I should've checked if what I was saying was true. "prefix" on
the first step doesn't do anything. Try this instead on the last step:
make install PREFIX=~/perl
Note the upper case.
-Vadim
Denver writes:
> I tried installing the modules using the command
>
> /usr/bin/perl5 Makefile.PL prefix=~/perl
> make
> make test
> make install
>
> and I get this error message saying that I don't have write permissions. Is there
>any other way to bypass this without asking root for permissions?
>
> Thanks
> Denver
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
> <HTML><HEAD>
> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type>
> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR>
> <STYLE></STYLE>
> </HEAD>
> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I tried installing the modules using the
> command</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>/usr/bin/perl5 Makefile.PL
> prefix=~/perl<BR>make<BR>make test<BR>make install<BR></FONT><FONT face=Arial
> size=2></FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>and I get this error message saying that I don't
> have write permissions. Is there any other way to bypass this without
> asking root for permissions?</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks </FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Denver<BR></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>
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