Installing perl in a User Directory

Here is the procedure that I went thru to add perl into a user directory:

1. Setup the directories:

• cd 

• mkdir perl5 

• mkdir perl5/bin 

• mkdir perl5/lib 

• mkdir perl5/man 

• mkdir perl5/man/man1 

2. Download the source (See this link for URLs: http://www.cpan.org/src/README.html)

• wget http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.10.1.tar.gz 

3. Unpack it

• tar zxvf perl-5.10.1.tar.gz 

4. Install it

• cd perl\-5.10.1 

• ./Configure -des -Dusethreads -Dprefix=$HOME/perl5

• make test && make install 

5. Configure PERL5LIB (add to .profile)

• export PERL5LIB=$HOME/perl5:$HOME/perl5/site_perl 

6. Install cpanm

• $HOME/perl5/bin/cpan App::cpanminus 

7. Install LWP

• $HOME/perl5/bin/cpanm LWP 

Install XML::Parse and Expat:

1. Download Expat: http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/files/expat/

• wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/files/expat/2.1.0/expat-2.1.0.tar.gz/download 

2. Compile Expat

• tar -zxvf expat-2.1.0.tar.gz 

• cd expat-2.1.0 

• ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr 

• make 

• make install 

3. Install XML::Parser

• cd 

• perl5/bin/cpan 

• o conf makepl_arg "EXPATLIBPATH=/prod/user/home/boz604/usr/lib EXPATINCPATH=/prod/user/home/boz604/usr/include" 

• o conf commit 

• install XML::Parser 

• quit 

Install Net::SSLeay and OpenSSL and Zlib:

1. Download OpenSSL

• wget http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1e.tar.gz 

2. Compile OpenSSL

• tar -zxvf openssl-1.0.1e.tar.gz 

• cd openssl-1.0.1e 

• ./config shared --prefix=$HOME/usr --openssldir=$HOME/usr/openssl

• make 

• make test && make install 

3. Download Zlib

• wget http://www.zlib.net/zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz 

4. Compile Zlib

• tar -zxvf zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz 

• cd zlib-1.2.8 

• ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr 

• make 

• make test && make install 

5. Install Net::SSLeay

• cd 

• OPENSSL_PREFIX=$HOME/usr perl5/bin/cpan Net::SSLeay 

6. Install LWP::Protocol::https

• cd 

• perl5/bin/cpanm LWP::Protocol::https 

Here is how to set custom Include and Lib directories:

•  In CPAN:

• perl5/bin/cpan 

• o conf makepl_arg "LIBS=-L$HOME/usr INC=-I$HOME/usr/include" 

• o conf commit 

• When running perl:

• perl -I $HOME/perl5/lib/site_perl 

• Inside your perl script

• use lib "/home/user/perl5/lib/site_perl";