[Chicago-talk] "I don't have permission to
installamoduleonthesystem!"
petemar1
petemar1 at perlmonk.org
Tue Dec 30 05:36:32 CST 2003
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[mailto:chicago-talk-bounces at mail.pm.org]On Behalf Of Mike Fragassi
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 10:08 PM
To: Chicago.pm chatter
Subject: RE: [Chicago-talk] "I don't have permission to
installamoduleonthesystem!"
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, petemar1 wrote:
> Does anyone have a sample .cpan file?
First, the file is not ~/.cpan, but ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm.
Second, the argument that you need is
'makepl_arg' => q[PREFIX=/your/home/dir/here],
Allegedly you can make do with '~', but I seem to have had some problems
with that.
If you do not already have the MyConfig.pm file, simply locate the root
user's CPAN/Config.pm, and copy it to that location, and make the changes.
Also, once you've done that, replace all references to '/root/' with
'/your/home/dir/here', except for the paths of executables, like lynx,
make, ftp, etc.
(Note that PREFIX is really an argument for ExtUtils::MakeMaker, and gets
passed to the 'perl Makefile.PL' stage. If you ever find yourself having
to install a perl module outside of the CPAN shell, i.e. by ftping a
module, untar/zipping it, etc., all you need to do is run 'perl
Makefile.PL PREFIX=/your/home' instead of 'perl Makefile.PL'; all the
other steps in the installation process don't need to be changed. If you
have to do this often, just create a shell alias -- call it 'mymakeperl'
or something.
Also note that ExtUtils::MakeMaker "has issues"[1], and Module::Build
is being increasingly adopted as a replacement, much like CPANPLUS is
intended as a replacement of CPAN.pm.)
Finally, to use your new, personal ~/lib, be sure to set the following in
your .bash_profile (or whichever):
PERL5LIB='/your/home/lib'
Or just make sure that all your programs 'use lib qw(/your/home/lib);'.
I highly recommend jumping through these hoops to avoid polluting the root
set of modules, even on systems where you do have root access. Once I
upgraded to the latest copy of CGI.pm, only to discover that the upgrade
actually broke the way that -style parameters were used. (I'm pretty sure
this has been fixed, incidentally.) Because I only installed into my
~/lib, I could just nuke that and revert to the default module, and I
could breathe easy knowing I hadn't affected any other user's scripts.
Similarly, when editing MyConfig.pm, I recommend
'prerequisites_policy' => q[ask],
and not 'follow'.
-- Mike F.
[1]http://search.cpan.org/~kwilliams/Module-Build-0.21/lib/Module/Build.pm#M
OTIVATIONS
Also:
http://www.makemaker.org/src/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-snap/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker/
FAQ.pod
And:
http://magnonel.guild.net/~schwern/talks/MakeMaker_Is_DOOMED/slides/
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