Re: module-starter command not found after installation

[aitap]

Exactly where did CPAN install this module? Try perldoc perllocal to find this out.

Perhaps CPAN has automatically set up a local::lib overlay in the home directory of the user who ran CPAN (i.e. root) and thus made installed modules unavalable for other users.

[gideondsouza]

Hey Maybe you're on to something

I got this:

Wed Nov 28 20:17:48 2012: "Module" Test::Simple
       ·   "installed into: /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.12.4"
       ·   "LINKTYPE: dynamic"
       ·   "VERSION: 0.98"
       ·   "EXE_FILES: "
   Wed Nov 28 20:18:06 2012: "Module" HTTP::Tiny
       ·   "installed into: /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.4"
       ·   "LINKTYPE: dynamic"
       ·   "VERSION: 0.024"
       ·   "EXE_FILES: "
   Wed Nov 28 20:18:12 2012: "Module" IPC::Run3
       ·   "installed into: /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.4"

Also, I can see a number of modules under /Library/Perl/5.10 and /Library/Perl/5.12, but I can't see Module::Starter here

And It seems that all my newer module installations are going somewhere wrong! How do I make them go back to the regular default location?

I checked somewhere, can I safely do this:

eval $(perl -Mlocal::lib=--deactivate-all)

[aitap]

This command will just unset some environment variables and restore PATH in your current shell. You need to edit your shell rc file (usually ~/.bashrc, check root's too) to reset changes local::lib made. You may also need to edit CPAN config, try grep -r perl5 ~/.cpan (maybe as root) to check whether you need to do it.

You can also install modules as normal user (to ~/perl5) if you allow local::lib to create the overlay.

[gideondsouza]

OK!!! It seems like removing this line from .bash_profile worked:

export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH

I installed Module Starter again and it deleted files from somewhere, installed and now I can use module-starter.pl

Thanks a TON all you guys! :)

[gideondsouza]

Hey thanks for your reply.

I don't have .bashrc but I have .bash_profile and the following in it:

source ~/perl5/perlbrew/etc/bashrc
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH

Should I remove the export or even the source line?

What should I look for and edit in ~/.cpan ??

[gideondsouza]

This is in reply to @davido's post, I can't seem to reply directly to his post.

Yes, some book I was reading had a thing about local::lib and I barely understood it well and added that export PATH in my bash_profile myself.

I tried to run a bunch of scripts and my dummy catalyst projects, and they work so, so far so good :)

When I did perldoc perllocal I get an output described in this post : Re^2: module-starter command not found after installation. I'm assuming those are modules installed in my local lib and if I need them I might have to do a re-install?