How do I tell CPAN.pm to install all modules in a specific directory?

cpan, perl

Solution

Install local::lib. It will handle all the configuration for you.

Problem

I have set ``` makepl_arg [INSTALLDIRS=site PREFIX=~/perl] mbuildpl_arg [--install_base ~/perl] ``` in the CPAN.pm configuration. I had hoped that this would cause modules to get installed in the same place, but I still have to set multiple paths in PERL5LIB: ``` export PERL5LIB=~/perl/share/perl/5.10.0:~/perl/lib/perl5/:~/perl/lib/perl/5.10.0 ``` This has been the case for a long time and I have just lived with it, but I was wondering if anyone knew how to get CPAN.pm to put all modules in the same directory?

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