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Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 11:13:15 -0800 (PST)
From: Elvin Peterson <elvin_peterson AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: CPAN module in Cygwin
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--- Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at> wrote:

> 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

I have read access for the file (as I do for all the
files in /usr/bin).  I don't have a $HOME/.cpan (the
script didn't get that far).

Thanks for the reply.



		
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