Re^3: module-starter command not found after installation

[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! :)

[davido]

You should be asking yourself why export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH was in your .bash_profile. It was there for a reason. Your cure might have broken something else.

[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 ??

[aitap]

Do you use system Perl, or Perl built using perlbrew? What's inside ~/perl5/perlbrew/etc/bashrc? Do you see any differences in root's config files? Search ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyPrefs.pm and the output of o conf CPAN shell command for something unusual in options named make_..._arg and mbuild_..._arg.

It looks like removing these lines made you use system Perl again instead of perlbrew's one, and CPAN is set to install modules in system directories by default.

[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?