On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 02:01 PM, william ross wrote: > > On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 01:53 PM, Richard Jolly wrote: > > here's your immediate problem: > >> CPAN build and cache directory? [/Users/rjolly/.cpan] y > > to accept the default, just press return. having answered 'y', your > cache directory is now './y', which doesn't exist. You can correct > that by editing CPAN/MyConfig.pm, but you needn't bother. Having > installed 5.8.0 over the apple default (as i did, and came to regret), > you'll need to run -MCPAN as root to install modules anyway.
Duh! Thanks. I thought "y" was a strange directory name when I saw it in the output, but I didn't make the connection. Why is it such a bad idea to replace Apple's 5.6? I could reinstall 10.2 just to revert that, I guess. Would it be worth it? Richard
