Changeset 11451

Timestamp:

Jan 30, 2007, 2:58:00 PM (19 years ago)

Author:

jhoblitt

Message:

add blurb about PERL5LIB

File:

• trunk/doc/install/local_cpan.txt (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/doc/install/local_cpan.txt

@@ -233 +233 @@
 --
 
+You can quit out of the CPAN shell at this poin with the `exit` command or do the following few steps in another shell
+
 
 We're ready to install the full set Perl module dependancies for IPP software.  In order to make this process a bit easier on the end user a "Bundle" module has been created.  In order to use it you need to create a directory (if it doesn't already exist) called Bundle under your .cpan directory.
@@ -258 +260 @@
 
 
-
+In order to use another of these modules that were just installed when need to
+setup an enviroment variable called PERL5LIB so that 'perl' can find them.  To do this, we need to know where under 'perl5' our modules were actually installed.  This will variable with the version of Perl that you are using.  The easiest ay to do this is just just look in the root of the path where we did the install.
+
+--
+`ls jhroot/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/perl5/`
+--
+
+Which should show something like:
+
+5.8.8  Test  site_perl
+
+That means were using perl 5.8.8 and PERL5LIB needs to be setup as following:
+--
+export PERL5LIB=$HOME/jhroot/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/perl5/5.8.8:$HOME/jhroot/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
+--
 
 For instructions on installing Perl modules from CPAN ''by hand', see: