Hi !

My hosting company doesn't want to install the Perl Module for me so is there any way I can use the module without their installation ? I mean I already had the module (download from CPAN) - can login to my server thru FTP - how do I write the perl code or do any way so that I can call the module (Image::Size) ?

Thanks so much for your help.

Installation instructions for installing the module in a local directory are available on CPAN

What url are we supposed to use when setting up CPAN? It says to enter your favorite CPAN URL (or something like that) but I can't figure out what URL we're supposed to use.

--Drew
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Have you tried using http://www.cpan.org?

Regards,

Eliot Lee

yes, otherwise I wouldn't have posted.

but yes, it worked. When I looked at MyConfig.pm I noticed I had accidently put 'cpan.org' instead of 'http://www.cpan.org'.

What do I do now? Is there a way to tell CPAN to install to a different directory?

--Drew
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I'm not 100% sure because I've never tried but I don't think you can install CPAN in another location. Why would you want to anyway?....Can you not use the existing version?

Also when I installed CPAN it gave me 5 example URL's to use as my favourites so I don't know why you didn't see them too.

Paul
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I'm not trying to install CPAN... that was already done, actually. I just had to set it up. What I need to do is tell CPAN to install modules to different directory since I'm not su and can't install to the servers perl libs. I guess that simply means I can only FTP them to a directory and hope they work when changing 'require' lines...

--Drew
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I am not sure if this will help you but I had to install some modules myself because my host wouldn't install them. I found this info at CPAN:

http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_install_private

which tells you to do this:

foo@barbell$ perl Makefile.PL LIB=/home/foobar/mylib PREFIX=/home/foobar/mylib


I am not sure if that is what you are looking for but it worked for me.

Regards
~Charlie

Ah yes I forgot about that - you can use PREFIX to specify a location which may work but again you may not have permission to do so but I guess it's worth a try.

I would have thought you could just upload the modules to your site as normal as that is how Links SQL uses modules. In the cgi script you can then use.....

use ModuleName.pm

Or if it is in another folder....

use Folder::ModuleName.pm

I'm just clutching at straws......

Paul
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Support: http://wiredon.net/forum/

Hm.. I've tried just about everything now and still no go. still get 'segmentation fault' so I'm assuming the problem is from my host's end. On a similar note, at least from PHP it tells me 'permission denied to user camelsoup@localhost' when trying to connect to the SQL server. I've emailed my admin to try get this resolved.

--Drew
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