[Catalyst] Day 10 - Catalyst on shared hosting

[Matt S Trout]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:33:26PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> I just followed the calendar example to install Catalyst on a
> reasonably clean machine (new Debian Sarge install on Dreamhost).
> 
> I needed to change:
> 
>   'makepl_arg' => qq[INSTALLDIRS=site install_base=$ENV{HOME}/local],
> 
> to
> 
>   'makepl_arg' => qq[INSTALLDIRS=site PREFIX=$ENV{HOME}/local],
> 
> Seems like there used to be a problem getting everything installed
> locally using PREFIX (man pages?), but maybe that was an older
> version.
> 
> Before using PREFIX above, make install was still trying to install
> catalyst.pl in /usr/bin:

Oh, quite possibly. I didn't care about that because I was using it for
deployment, not for development.

Note: those instructions were copied and pasted (pretty much) out of the
install documentation I did for the last client site we deployed onto
dreamhost. They definitely worked then :)

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