How can I install a CPAN module into a local directory

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I m using a hosted Linux machine so I don t have permissions to write into the  usr lib directory   When I try to install a CPAN module by doing the usual   perl Makefile PL make test make install   That module is extracted to a blib lib  folder  I have kept use blib lib ModuleName but it still the compiler says module can not be found  I have tried copying the  pm file into local directory and kept require ModuleName but still it gives me some error   How can I install a module into some other directory and use it

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Other answers already on Stackoverflow    How do I install modules locally without root access    How can I use a new Perl module without install permissions    From perlfaq8    How do I keep my own module library directory   When you build modules  tell Perl where to install the modules   For Makefile PL-based distributions  use the INSTALL BASE option when generating Makefiles   perl Makefile PL INSTALL BASE  mydir perl   You can set this in your CPAN pm configuration so modules automatically install in your private library directory when you use the CPAN pm shell     cpan cpan gt  o conf makepl arg INSTALL BASE  mydir perl cpan gt  o conf commit   For Build PL-based distributions  use the --install base option   perl Build PL --install base  mydir perl   You can configure CPAN pm to automatically use this option too     cpan cpan gt  o conf mbuildpl arg  --install base  mydir perl  cpan gt  o conf commit

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I strongly recommend Perlbrew  It lets you run multiple versions of Perl  install packages  hack Perl internals if you want to  all regular user permissions

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I had a similar problem  where I couldn t even install local  lib  I created an installer that installed the module somewhere relative to the  pl files  The install goes like   perl Makefile PL PREFIX   modulos make make install   Then  in the  pl file that requires the module  which is in     use lib qw   modulos share perl 5 8 8      You may need to change this path use module  name    The rest of the files  makefile pl  module pm  etc  require no changes   You can call the  pl file with just  perl file pl

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For Makefile PL-based distributions  use the INSTALL BASE option when generating Makefiles   perl Makefile PL INSTALL BASE  mydir perl

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local  lib will help you   It will convince  make install   and  Build install   to install to a directory you can write to  and it will tell perl how to get at those modules   In general  if you want to use a module that is in a blib  directory  you want to say perl -Mblib     where     is how you would normally invoke your script

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