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Asked: 2026-05-29T07:41:04+00:00

I’m new to Perl and am trying to install the Net::SFTP module by running

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I’m new to Perl and am trying to install the Net::SFTP module by running

cpanm Net::SFTP

I tried the install and after 5-10 minutes it failed with the following

! Configure failed for Math-GMP-2.06. See /Users/applemacbookpro/.cpanm/build.log for details.
! Bailing out the installation for Net-SSH-Perl-1.34. Retry with --prompt or --force.
! Bailing out the installation for Net-SFTP-0.10. Retry with --prompt or --force.
19 distributions installed

But, when I tried the install again, I noticed this message:

Can't write to /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.3 and /opt/local/bin: Installing modules to /Users/applemacbookpro/perl5

So, now I have a bunch of modules installed in the ~/perl5 directory – am I going to run into problems if I then install using sudo and my perl modules are located in two separate directories?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Perl searches for modules based on @INC, which you can see with perl -V. (That’s an uppercase “V”.) If you have the module installed in two locations, the first one found in @INC will be the one loaded.

    Perl wouldn’t normally know to even look in /Users/applemacbookpro/perl5, so chances are it won’t find the modules there.

    If you didn’t have any modules in /Users/applemacbookpro/perl5 to begin with, feel free to delete the directory.

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