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the machine i'm working on is very securied and no one will give internet access.. I must say it very frustrated i can't just download the modules put them in the folder do some Perl trick and thats it....:) why i cant just create the private folder with the modules i need without using the old one installed elsewhere? Is there some clear guide how to do it?

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Re^5: Install Module with no admin permission
by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 05, 2017 at 14:48 UTC

    This is exactly the situation I'm in, at home or elsewhere create a minicpan, transfer it using the clients signed off mechanism, extract and then install via cpanm as normal. Another alternative would be to install your own version of perl specific to your application elsewhere on the system. One argument for doing so is leaving the system perl alone, which could be a convincing argument for this course of action given the environment in which you are working.

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Re^5: Install Module with no admin permission
by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 05, 2017 at 17:48 UTC

    So local::lib now has a prerequsite of EUMM v7. You seem to have a method for transferring files onto this system somehow, here's a method for getting an up to date EUMM & local::lib installed. In my example below ignore the wgets for the packages, I'll leave them in for a complete end to end illustration:

    marto@pihost:~$ perl -v

This is perl 5, version 14, subversion 2 (v5.14.2) built for arm-linux
+-gnueabihf-thread-multi-64int ........

marto@pihost:~$ wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/H/HA/HAARG
+/local-lib-2.000023.tar.gz
marto@pihost:~$ wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/B/BI/BINGO
+S/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-7.30.tar.gz
marto@pihost:~$ tar xzf ExtUtils-MakeMaker-7.30.tar.gz
marto@pihost:~$ cd ExtUtils-MakeMaker-7.30/
marto@pihost:~$ perl Makefile.PL INSTALL_BASE=$HOME/perl5
marto@pihost:~$ make
marto@pihost:~$ make test
marto@pihost:~$ make install
marto@pihost:~$ cd ..
marto@pihost:~$ tar xzf local-lib-2.000023.tar.gz
marto@pihost:~$ cd local-lib-2.000023/
marto@pihost:~$ perl -I $HOME/perl5/lib Makefile.PL --bootstrap
marto@pihost:~$ make
marto@pihost:~$ make test
marto@pihost:~$ make install

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    Now follow the remainder of the local::lib config. As mentioned earlier a minicpan is a great advantage working the sort of envrionements you and I seem to. After the above I installed cpanm and was able to use it to automatically install modules without issue. Let me know if this causes any problems.

    Update: As mentioned earlier, we installed our own perl, which is far more recent than the system perl, in another directory, and all our apps use this. Negates lots of issues. Our client saw this as a sane and logical suggestion, keeping clear of the system perl.

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      I installed ExtUtils-MakeMaker-7.30 

      [xxxp@illinxxx ExtUtils-MakeMaker-7.30]$ perl -Mlocal::lib Makefile.PL
Using included version of Parse::CPAN::Meta (1.4414) because it is not
+ already installed.
Using included version of CPAN::Meta (2.143240) because it is not alre
+ady installed.
Using included version of CPAN::Meta::YAML (0.011) because it is not a
+lready installed.
Using included version of JSON::PP (2.27203) because it is not already
+ installed.
Using included version of ExtUtils::Manifest (1.70) as it is newer tha
+n the installed version (1.61).
Using included version of CPAN::Meta::Requirements (2.131) because it 
+is not already installed.
Using included version of ExtUtils::Install (2.06) as it is newer than
+ the installed version (1.58).
Generating a Unix-style Makefile
Writing Makefile for ExtUtils::MakeMaker
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json

..make...

...make test return:
[nadavp@illin4615 ExtUtils-MakeMaker-7.30]$ make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 "/usr/bin/perl" "-Iblib/arch" "-Iblib/lib" "-MExtUti
+ls::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "undef *Test::Harness::Switch
+es; test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/00compile.t ............. ok
t/01perl_bugs.t ........... ok
t/02-xsdynamic.t .......... skipped: ExtUtils::CBuilder not installed 
+or couldn't find a compiler
t/03-xsstatic.t ........... skipped: ExtUtils::CBuilder not installed 
+or couldn't find a compiler
t/arch_check.t ............ ok
t/backwards.t ............. ok
t/basic.t ................. ok
t/build_man.t ............. ok
t/cd.t .................... ok
.....
Result: PASS

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      going back to local-lib-2.000023 and install 

      [xxxx@illin4615 local-lib-2.000023]$ perl -Mlocal::lib Makefile.PL
Warning: prerequisite ExtUtils::MakeMaker 7.00 not found. We have 6.68
+.
Writing Makefile for local::lib

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      ... I dont understand whats wrong, I install the ExtUtils::MakeMaker , I think locally but when i try to install the local::lib it still see the old verison of ExtUtils::MakeMaker

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        "I dont understand whats wrong, I install the ExtUtils::MakeMaker , I think locally but when i try to install the local::lib it still see the old verison of ExtUtils::MakeMaker"

        Take a look at the instructions I posted, when boostrapping local::lib I include the path to where I installed EUMM v7. The instructions I gave you should be pretty much copy & paste.

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        Can you show the output of make install too?

        ($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,

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