{"id":16,"date":"2008-04-28T00:41:05","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T05:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/?p=12"},"modified":"2008-04-28T00:41:05","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T05:41:05","slug":"installing-perl-modules-on-1and1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/2008\/04\/28\/installing-perl-modules-on-1and1\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing Perl Modules on 1and1"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was trying to figure out how to install perl modules on my hosting provider 1and1.com<\/a>. I was doing an old school install where I was unpacking and making the modules myself. Yep… as usual there was a better way. Yes, I’m a bonehead but since I need a scapegoat I’m blaming it on the Yahoo dev environment. It’s made me soft and I needed to figure out the right way to do this.<\/p>\n

\nThat said, cpan.pm comes with most standard perl installs and totally makes installing modules easier. It handles dependencies, downloads, unpacking, etc. All I really had to do was configure the env. This seemed to be the one snag that wasn’t well documented. I was getting something like the following error when running $ perl -MCPAN -e shell:<\/p>\n

\n Your configuration suggests “\/root\/.cpan” as your CPAN.pm working directory. I could not create this directory due to this error: mkdir \/root\/.cpan: Permission denied at \/usr\/lib\/perl5\/5.6.1\/CPAN.pm line 499
\nPlease make sure the directory exists and is writable.<\/font><\/p>\n

The solution was found here:
\n  http:\/\/www.dcc.fc.up.pt\/~pbrandao\/aulas\/0203\/AR\/modules_inst_cpan.html<\/p>\n

\nThe site describes the following steps which I modified to work for me:<\/p>\n

\n
    \n
  1. Create a directory for the perl modules in your HOME
    \n $ mkdir ~\/perl5lib<\/font>\n<\/li>\n
  2. Create ~\/.cpan and ~\/.cpan\/CPAN directories:
    \n mkdir ~\/.cpan
    mkdir ~\/.cpan\/CPAN
    <\/font><\/p>\n<\/li>\n
  3. Create a Config.pm for the CPAN module with $CPAN::Config<\/code> empty
    \n $ echo “$CPAN::Config = {}”> ~\/.cpan\/CPAN\/MyConfig.pm<\/font>\n <\/li>\n
  4. Execute again:
    \n $ perl -MCPAN -e shell<\/font>
    \nThis time (if all goes well) it will prompt you for the empty fields in $CPAN::Config<\/code>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Here’s where I modified things:<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Exit the cpan interactive shell<\/li>\n
    2. Pick a directory where you want to keep your local copy of perl modules. I chose: ~\/perl as the prefix.<\/li>\n
    3. Create the directory there and make sure you have permissions to write.<\/li>\n
    4. Start the cpan interactive shell again using $ perl -MCPAN -e shell<\/li>\n
    5. You need to re-configure the conf to point at your new directory.<\/li>\n
    6. o conf makepl_arg “LIB=~\/perl\/lib
      \n INSTALLMAN1DIR=~\/perl\/man\/man1
      \n INSTALLMAN3DIR=~\/perl\/man\/man3″<\/li>\n
    7. o conf commit ( this will make the changes permanent )<\/li>\n
    8. exit the cpan interactive shell again and modify your env vars to point at the new locations<\/li>\n
    9. export PERL5LIB=${PERL5LIB}:~\/perl\/lib (If you want this to be permanent then modify your ~\/.bashrc)<\/li>\n
    10. restart the cpan interactive shell and you’re set to start installing<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      I was trying to figure out how to install perl modules on my hosting provider 1and1.com. I was doing an old school install where I was unpacking and making the modules myself. Yep… as usual there was a better way. Yes, I’m a bonehead but since I need a scapegoat I’m blaming it on the … Continue reading “Installing Perl Modules on 1and1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[13,14,37,38,49],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-13","tag-1and1","tag-perl","tag-perl-modules","tag-shared-hosting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themayesfamily.com\/blogs\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}