$HOME not recognized by CPAN

Posted on 2008-10-10 16:32:27-07 by edvallie

I'm on a multiuser system where cpan used to be functional. Now, when a user who hasn't run cpan before tries to install modules, it cannot find $HOME to create .cpan directories inside of. `echo $HOME` comes back correctly with my home directory, but for some reason cpan isn't reading this properly? Does anyone know what would cause cpan to do this?

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Posted on 2008-10-10 17:22:23-07 by eserte in response to 9017

Re: $HOME not recognized by CPAN

Maybe $HOME is just a local shell variable. Try export HOME (if in a sh or bash or so) or setenv HOME ..... (if in a csh or tcsh or so) first to turn this into a real environment variable.

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Posted on 2008-10-11 00:34:35-07 by edvallie in response to 9019

Re: $HOME not recognized by CPAN

No luck after exporting HOME, looks like it's a real environment variable.

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