[Canberra-pm] Trying to use cpan to install PERL modules into a non-root directory [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Paul Fenwick]

G'day everyone,

Apologies for the short mail, busy day...

> John.Hockaday at ga.gov.au wrote:
> I am trying to get the DBI, DBD and Oracle packages loaded.  I seems like I
> will need to load perl 5.8.8 into my local directories and then ask the IT
> people to copy the results over to their /opt/csw/lib/perl/site_perl
> directories once I have tested them.  If only I had root or sudo permissions.
> ;--)

You may also wish to investigate PAR (Perl Archives) as an alternative:

	http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?PAR::Tutorial

Cheerio,

	Paul

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