CPAN module in Cygwin
Reini Urban
rurban@x-ray.at
Sun Oct 31 08:01:00 GMT 2004
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
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Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/
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