Installing Perl modules without root access | Linux Today

Installing Perl modules without root access

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 31, 2009

[ Thanks to Jon Allen
(JJ)
for this link. ]

“And of course, local::lib itself can be installed
without root permissions, so there’s no need to bother your
sysadmin at all!

“Installation walkthrough

“I’m going to demonstrate how to use local::lib on a clean
install of Ubuntu 9.04.

“The first thing to do is go to
http://search.cpan.org/dist/local-lib and download the latest
version. Save the .tar.gz archive to your Desktop folder.
search.cpan.org Downloading local::lib

“Next, open a Terminal session and enter the following commands
to unpack the archive:”


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