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