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Hi all,

I have a question related to system perl and local perl (that we are planning to use for our application)

The system perl is at /usr/bin/perl and the local that we have installed for our application is at /opt/apps/perl/perl5220/bin/perl (both on the same host/linux box)

Now if I want to install modules from CPAN for the app perl (the one at /opt/apps/perl/perl5220/bin/perl) without changing anything on the system perl (the one at /usr/bin/perl) then will it be ok to do: /opt/apps/perl/perl5220/bin/cpan -i Template?

I didn't want to try it and see what happens if it has a chance to mess things up.

Per Llama book, "by default, the CPAN tools want to install new modules into the same directories where perl is." So I think if I use cpan for the local perl then it should install modules for itself rather than system perl, but not 100% sure about it.

In reply to [Solved]: How to install modules for local perl without changing anything on system perl? by Perl300

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