LPM: How do you use CPAN?

[Rich Bowen]

Michael Wallace wrote:
> 
> Could someone give me a good description on how to use CPAN?  I am a newbie
> in this Perlish world, and need some help getting some modules.
> Specifically, I do not have root permission on the box I'm using, and so I
> want to install the modules under my personal directory.  How do I direct
> the install to install in my directory and not in
> /path/to/where/perl/is/installed/ ??  Secondly, once I get the modules
> installed, what do I need to do to get my program to locate the modules
> since they are in an uncommon place (i.e. my directory)??

I wrote up a little document about this:
http://www.rcbowen.com/imho/perl/modules.html

Rich
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