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Hello, Shlomi, see below On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:07:34AM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Note: Beware! Default reply-to is to the list. > > > Hi Ian, > > On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 09:58:29 +0200 > Anne Wainwright <anothera...@fables.co.za> wrote: > > > Note: Beware! Default reply-to is to the list. > > > > > > Hi there, > > > > A simple question here - but then you know my knowledge is limited! > > > > I do my development work on my laptop, it has a local installation of > > perl. > > > > The current script that I am developing is to run on my (ubuntu) server > > from my home account. I will need to install several modules for this. > > > > Question. Do I use cpan as root or can I just fire up $ cpan from my > > home account and install them? > > It depends on what you want to do. You can use something like local-lib > ( https://metacpan.org/release/local-lib ) to install modules under your home > directory - only for your current user. If you use cpan as root, then it may > install files all over the filesystem, and thus - may pollute it. You can also > try to package these CPAN distributions as Ubuntu packages. See what I wrote > about all that here: > > http://perl-begin.org/topics/cpan/ > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish Thank you, Shlomi. That of course is what I had to have done to use local perl on my development machine. So local-lib also on the server then. Your site is looking great, lots of interesting stuff on there. The w3m browser shows it well. Anne > > > > > many thanks > > Ian > > _______________________________________________ > > Za-pm mailing list > > Za-pm@pm.org > > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/za-pm > > > > posts also archived on Mail Archive > > http://www.mail-archive.com/za-pm@pm.org/ > > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > First stop for Perl beginners - http://perl-begin.org/ > > Yesterday I asked one of my students if she knew what an encyclopedia is, and > she said: βIs it something like Wikipedia?β. > β http://twitter.com/alisonclement/status/8421314259 > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . > _______________________________________________ > Za-pm mailing list > Za-pm@pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/za-pm > > posts also archived on Mail Archive > http://www.mail-archive.com/za-pm@pm.org/ _______________________________________________ Za-pm mailing list Za-pm@pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/za-pm posts also archived on Mail Archive http://www.mail-archive.com/za-pm@pm.org/
