APM: installing modules on a virtual server

[Sam Foster]

Ian Remmler wrote:
> If by "gave me nothing" above, you mean there was no output from
> the command, that's normal.  Just do a "set |grep PERL5LIB" or
> "echo $PERL5LIB" to see the contents.  If you already know this
> stuff, excuse the wasted bytes.
> 
> Unless the perl binary is wonkey, I can't see a reason why that
> shouldn't work.  I'm using a similar setup at work with no
> problems.  I haven't needed the 'use lib' trick.
> 
Ahh.. Thank you Ian for pointing out the should-have-been-obvious.
PERL5LIB was indeed being set, but running the cpan shell having set it, 
gave me the same result - modules installed to ~/perl5lib are not being 
found.
In the Test::* example, I've got

~/perl5lib/lib/Test/Builder.pm
~/perl5lib/lib/Test/Harness
~/perl5lib/lib/Test/Harness.pm
~/perl5lib/lib/Test/More.pm
~/perl5lib/lib/Test/Simple.pm
~/perl5lib/lib/Test/Tutorial.pod

(~/perl5lib resolves to /home/usgm/perl5lib)

yet, the File::Slurp tests complain:

t/stdin.............Can't locate Test/More.pm in @INC (@INC contains: 
blib/arch blib/lib /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i686-linux 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i686-linux 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1 /home/usgm/perl5lib /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i686-linux 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl . /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i686-linux 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at t/stdin.t 
line 9.

/home/usgm/perl5lib is in fact in @INC... However,
	export PERL5LIB = ~/perl5lib/lib
does make it all work. I guess I was expecting it to search down from 
~/perl5lib, it didn't occur to me I needed the extra '/lib'.

thanks all, I think I'm back on track.

Sam