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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Please ignore… I’ve found the solution (writing the email to the group got me questioning what I was doing, so many thanks!).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The .bashrc file to edit is for the admin user, not the root user. I just had to comment out the five lines that CPAN had added when I mistakenly tried installing modules as admin (well now I know).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> Blueonyx [mailto:blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Richard Morgan<br><b>Sent:</b> 09 July 2020 12:23<br><b>To:</b> blueonyx@blueonyx.it<br><b>Subject:</b> [BlueOnyx:24075] Perl/CPAN install location<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi, hope this is easy.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On my newly install 5210R server, I’m installing Perl modules – normally it’s fine and they are installed into /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl, etc.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Using both cpan -i and perl –MCPAN –e shell (which I think is nearly the same thing) they are both being installed to /home/.users/admin/perl5. I am logged in as root.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve read up on PERL5LIB and modifying .bashrc but these don’t make a lot of sense as they’re talking about using locations other than the default /usr/share/perl5.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Can anyone kindly shed some light on how I specify the install location?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks, Richard<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>