[Israel.pm] Problem with cpan for regular user

[Omer Zak]

On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 17:22 +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Omer Zak <w1 at zak.co.il> wrote:
> > I want to install, for a single user, Perl modules which are not already
> > Debian packages, using cpan.
>
> You need to configure the CPAN shell to set these variables
> I have the following in my CPAN shell config file
> ( /home/gabor/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm )
> 
> 'makepl_arg' => q[PREFIX=~/perl5lib LIB=~/perl5lib/lib],
> 
> and to support modules that have Build.PL instead of Makefile.PL :
> 
> mbuildpl_arg' => q[--install_base /home/gabor/perl5lib --install_path
> lib=/home/gabor/perl5lib/lib],

Thanks, the above worked for me (I hand-edited ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm
after initial configuration).

I found that once I add ~/perl5lib/bin to my path, the corresponding
~/perl5lib/man is added to the output of the 'manpath' command - so the
system took care also of the path for installed manpages.

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