ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a Linux user and don’t have root access.

Intro

This tutorial is for people wanting to install perl modules using CPAN who do not have root access or wish to keep a network-central module repository that is separated from the local install.

Downloads

lib::local module on CPAN

Installing

Unpackage lib::local

tar xvfz local-lib-1.008004.tar.gz

tar xvfz local-lib-1.008004.tar.gz

Choose a library directory

I use a value of $HOME which installs the modules into $HOME/lib/perl5

Install lib::local into the above spot

cd lib-local-1.008004
perl

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