Installing my software and its dependencies without root access

If you do not have root access on your computer, but you want to download and install all of my stuff and all of its dependencies, you will have to do some work to prepare your user account. Fortunately, a clever fellow has already worked out a solution to this problem. The trick is to use the local::lib package from CPAN.

1. Go to this page and download the tar.gz file using the link at the top of the page.

2. Follow the instructions under the heading "To bootstrap if you don't have local::lib itself installed", which I will repeat here:

   1. unpack the local::lib tar.gz file that you just downloaded

   2. cd into the local-lib-1.002000 subdirectory (the version number might be different...)

   3. at the command line, enter perl Makefile.PL --bootstrap

   4. Answer "yes" to the question it asks about configuring CPAN

   5. do make test then make install

   6. Finally do

      echo 'eval $(perl -I$HOME/perl5/lib/perl5 -Mlocal::lib)' >>~/.bashrc

      This will alter your .bashrc file so that perl will know to install modules in your own diskspace and find them there once installed. It also exports some environment variables so you can run the programs installed by Horae and Demeter. (See the [http://search.cpan.org/~mstrout/local-lib local::lib web page] for instructions on how to do this for the C shell.)

3. You will now need to log out and log back in to make this change to the .bashrc file take effect. (Logging out and in is not strictly necessary, but it's easy and it will certainly work.)

Using local::lib behind a proxy server requires that you handle communications through the proxy at the level of the shell. Here at Brookhaven, I have the following in my .bashrc file:

export http_proxy=http://192.168.1.130:3128/

Each package described below starts with a step for installing the dependencies. Follow the instructions for installing to your own diskspace in each case.