When you installed the module, did you watch the output? Where did it say it installed the module? Look in lib. Do you see the next directory you expect? Look in ~/lib to see where eveything ended up to verify that you have the right directory name in your use lib statement: % find ~/lib … Read more
The easiest method I have found so far is to say wget -O- http://cpanmin.us | perl – -l ~/perl5 App::cpanminus local::lib eval `perl -I ~/perl5/lib/perl5 -Mlocal::lib` echo ‘eval `perl -I ~/perl5/lib/perl5 -Mlocal::lib`’ >> ~/.profile echo ‘export MANPATH=$HOME/perl5/man:$MANPATH’ >> ~/.profile This assumes your profile is named .profile, you may need to change that to be .bash_profile, … Read more
From perlfaq8: How do I keep my own module/library directory?: When you build modules, tell Perl where to install the modules. For C-based distributions, use the INSTALL_BASE option when generating Makefiles: perl Makefile.PL INSTALL_BASE=/mydir/perl You can set this in your CPAN.pm configuration so modules automatically install in your private library directory when you use the … Read more
See local::lib. Once you have it installed, you can do: perl -MCPAN -Mlocal::lib -e ‘CPAN::install(LWP)’
Other answers already on Stackoverflow: How do I install modules locally without root access… How can I use a new Perl module without install permissions? From perlfaq8: How do I keep my own module/library directory? When you build modules, tell Perl where to install the modules. For Makefile.PL-based distributions, use the INSTALL_BASE option when generating … Read more
On Unix: usually you start cpan in your shell: $ cpan and type install Chocolate::Belgian or in short form: cpan Chocolate::Belgian On Windows: If you’re using ActivePerl on Windows, the PPM (Perl Package Manager) has much of the same functionality as CPAN.pm. Example: $ ppm ppm> search net-smtp ppm> install Net-SMTP-Multipart see How do I … Read more
You are encountering an error installing the module named use, a module you accidentally asked to install by doing cpan use MIME::Base64 instead of cpan MIME::Base64 Since you don’t need the module anyway, it doesn’t matter that it’s buggy. Just run the correct command.