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Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 08:50:35 +0100
From: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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To: Elvin Peterson <elvin_peterson AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: CPAN module in Cygwin
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Elvin Peterson schrieb:
> Hello,
>    The CPAN command:
> 
> perl -MCPAN -e shell 
> 
> fails with:
> Cannot open >/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN/Config.pm at
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 1219
> 
> It looks like it is trying to write to a file owned by
> Administrator.  Is there a workaround to install
> modules as a user?

root ownersip is okay. but it must be readable.
user-specific CPAN configs are stored in ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm

chmod +r /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN/Config.pm
chmod -R +rw /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5
chmod -R +rw ~/.cpan

-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

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