Openwall Community Wiki internal:perl https://openwall.info/wiki/ 2026-04-14T18:14:36+02:00 Openwall Community Wiki https://openwall.info/wiki/ https://openwall.info/wiki/lib/tpl/local/images/favicon.ico text/html 2013-11-03T03:21:48+02:00 How to install and use CPAN modules as a non-root user https://openwall.info/wiki/internal/perl/cpan?rev=1383445308&do=diff It is often preferable to install CPAN modules under a (pseudo-)user account. This avoids having to run any CPAN code as root, makes the install of an application along with its required CPAN modules portable across (similar) systems, and keeps the underlying system “clean”. It's done roughly as follows: