installing Perl modules locally

Its a good idea to install perl modules locally so they are not overwritten by operating system updates. Its also keeps you from messing up the default installation. If you have problems with perl you can nuke the local install modules to see if it fixes the problem. To perform a local install, the following might be helpful:

'perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site INSTALLSITELIB=~/lib/perl PREFIX=~/lib/perl'

sometimes just 'perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/lib/perl' is enough

then make; make install 

make sure you have your PERL5LIB set to this directory, in bash it would
be export PERL5LIB=~/lib/perl

Philip Wilk

Last modified: Sun Nov 26 15:45:19 PST 2006