Set Install path in CPAN

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Re: Set Install path in CPAN by lima1 (Curate) on Aug 01, 2007 at 11:58 UTC
`cpan> o conf mbuildpl_arg "--install_base /proj/rose/" cpan> o conf makepl_arg "PREFIX=/proj/rose/" cpan> install HTML::Template` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Set Install path in CPAN by Anonymous Monk on Oct 25, 2016 at 08:06 UTC
After setting the conf options, i used o conf commit. Can you please tell how to reset/rollback it	[reply]
Re^3: Set Install path in CPAN by Corion (Pope) on Oct 25, 2016 at 08:08 UTC
Either set the options back manually and then use `o conf commit` again, or reinitialize CPAN: `o conf init` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Set Install path in CPAN by trwww (Priest) on Aug 01, 2007 at 13:57 UTC
When the CPAN shell starts, if it finds a file called ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm it will use that as the configuration file instead of the default one root has in its home directory. So, run: `$ mkdir -p ~/.cpan/CPAN` and then run: `$ cp /root/.cpan/CPAN/Config.pm ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm` or even just: `$ touch ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm` Now, when you run: `$ perl -MCPAN -e shell` At the cpan prompt tell it to initialize the configuration: `cpan> o conf init` CPAN will go through its initialization process, and ask you a bunch of questions (including what to set as arguments to Makefile.PL, which tells `make install` where to put the files. When it is done, you can use the cpan shell to install modules in a user defined location. Note that when installing libraries that have dependencies that are installed in your local directory, perl needs to be able to find them. So what I do is set PERL5LIB when I run cpan: `$ PERL5LIB=~/perl/lib perl -MCPAN -e shell` Enjoy, trwww	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Set Install path in CPAN by compused (Acolyte) on Feb 14, 2012 at 06:58 UTC
Monks, can you help again? I have done what trwww suggests immediately above, but this has not moved MyConfig from out of /root; it still shows as follows: `cpan[1]> o conf $CPAN::Config options from /root/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm: etc etc` [download] I want to move /MyConfig file out of /root as anything on root is on a RAM drive (its a qnap NAS device Here is my full config: cpan[1]> o conf $CPAN::Config options from /root/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm: commit [Commit changes to disk] defaults [Reload defaults from disk] help [Short help about 'o conf' usage] init [Interactive setting of all options] applypatch [] auto_commit [1] build_cache [100] build_dir [/share/MD0_DATA/.cpan/build_dir] build_dir_reuse [1] build_requires_install_policy [yes] bzip2 [/opt/bin/bzip2] cache_metadata [1] check_sigs [0] colorize_debug undef colorize_output [0] colorize_print undef colorize_warn undef commandnumber_in_prompt [1] commands_quote undef connect_to_internet_ok [1] cpan_home [/share/MD0_DATA/.cpan] curl undef dontload_hash undef dontload_list undef ftp undef ftp_passive [1] ftp_proxy [] ftpstats_period undef ftpstats_size undef getcwd [cwd] gpg [/opt/bin/gpg2] gzip [/bin/gzip] halt_on_failure [0] histfile [/share/MD0_DATA/.cpan/histfile] histsize [100] http_proxy [] inactivity_timeout [0] index_expire [1] inhibit_startup_message [0] keep_source_where [/share/MD0_DATA/.cpan/sources] load_module_verbosity [none] lynx undef make [/share/MD0_DATA/.qpkg/Optware/bin/make] make_arg [] make_install_arg [] make_install_make_command [/opt/bin/make] makepl_arg [PREFIX=/share/MD0_DATA] mbuild_arg [] mbuild_install_arg [] mbuild_install_build_command [./Build] mbuildpl_arg [] ncftp undef ncftpget undef no_proxy [] pager [/bin/more] password undef patch [/opt/bin/patch] patches_dir undef perl5lib_verbosity [none] prefer_external_tar [1] prefer_installer [MB] prefs_dir [/share/MD0_DATA/.cpan/prefs] prerequisites_policy [follow] proxy_pass undef proxy_user undef randomize_urllist undef scan_cache [atstart] shell [/bin/sh] show_unparsable_versions [0] show_upload_date [0] show_zero_versions [0] tar [/opt/bin/tar] tar_verbosity [none] term_is_latin [1] term_ornaments [1] test_report [0] trust_test_report_history [0] unzip [/usr/bin/unzip] urllist 0 [http://cpan.mirrors.ilisys.com.au/] 1 [http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/cpan/] 2 [http://cpan.mirror.aussiehq.net.au/] use_sqlite [0] username undef version_timeout [15] wait_list undef wget [/usr/bin/wget] yaml_load_code [0] yaml_module [YAML] [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Set Install path in CPAN by Anonymous Monk on Feb 14, 2012 at 10:28 UTC
export $HOME /not/in/ramdrive/ export MyConfig /not/in/ramdrive/.cpan/MyConfig/ Where should I post X?	[reply]
Re^4: Set Install path in CPAN by compused (Acolyte) on Feb 14, 2012 at 12:52 UTC
Re: Set Install path in CPAN by gube (Parson) on Aug 01, 2007 at 12:13 UTC
INSTALL PERL MODULES THROUGH CPAN	[reply]


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