package installation with no shell access 1

[effennel]

Hi,

How can I install modules and package when I have no shell access?

For example GD.pm is pretty self explanatory, I would just copy is somewhere use "use lib'path';" - but what about GD::Text::Align?

Thanks
FNL

 

[PaulTEG]

It should be able to find it from the use lib "GD", I'd have thought ... no
--Paul

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[ishnid]

If you have GD.pm in (for example) /home/username/lib/GD.pm (and your 'use lib' is /home/username/lib), then GD::Text::Align should be:
/home/username/lib/GD/Text/Align.pm

 

[effennel]

Great!

Thanks

FNL

 

[PaulTEG]

FNL,
I'm thinking no ....so star the man, ishnid
--Paul

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[effennel]

More on Packages...

I have a package installed by the systadmin and available via @INC. Now I want to use my own version of that package available in /home/username/lib/.

How do I specify the priority on which package is to be use?

FNL

 

[ishnid]

Either putting a "use lib '/home/username/lib';" line in your script or setting the PERL5LIB environment variable (probably in your .bashrc) will add that directory to the start of @INC (i.e. it'll be the first place the interpreter will look for modules.

 

[effennel]

Ishnid,

I already use the "use lib '/home/username/lib';" line in my script but it still goes to the @INC first and then I haven't got what I want.

I do not have access to the configuration of the server I use. In this one case, I could ask the admin to make the change for me, but what else is possible when the admin refuses to make the change to the .bashrc?

FNL

 

[ishnid]

Make sure that you put your 'use Module::Name' after 'use lib' and that the path in your 'use lib' line is definitely the correct path - perl will not check to see if that directory exists, only if /home/usename/lib/Module/Name.pm exists - obviously if the directory path is incorrect, it won't find that and continue down through @INC until it finds what it's looking for. It'll only throw an error if it can't find it anywhere.