Matisse Enzer wrote: > I was following the comments in http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/34680 > and came across something that was new to me, and seemed worthy of > repeating here - if only one other person learns this it'll be worth it: > > In comment http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=37249&cid=58370 brian d > foy points out that these days there is a really easy way to run CPAN as > a normal user, and install as root. Here's how to set your CPAn config > to do this: > > > From your shell prompt: > > sudo cpan > > Then from the cpan shell: > > o conf make_install_make_command 'sudo make' > o conf mbuild_install_build_command 'sudo ./Build' > o conf commit > quit > > From now on, run cpan as a regular user: > > cpan Some::New::Module > > That will build as you, and install as root.
I juat tried this on OSX. ~./cpan is fresh...as my user cpan -i CPAN yields: > Running make install > Warning: You do not have permissions to install into > //System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level at > /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 114. > Cannot forceunlink /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/CPAN.pm: Permission denied at > /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/File/Find.pm line 906 o conf: > make /usr/bin/make > make_arg > make_install_arg > make_install_make_command sudo make > makepl_arg > mbuild_install_build_command sudo ./Build -=Chris
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