Re: cpan oddity

2023-03-27 Thread Joel Roth
f...@dnsbed.com wrote:
Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > I ran cpan and did quick configuration and chose sudo to elevate
> > privileges when necessary.  Unfortunately I don't have write access on
> > /usr/local/bin so cpan is crippled.

> try cpanminus?
> $ sudo apt install cpanminus

Please note that when installing via cpanminus to a 
unprivileged directory, such as $HOME/perl5,
you must also include it in your environment.
see 'man local::lib'. 


-- 
Joel Roth



Re: cpan oddity

2023-03-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
I ran the cpan command as regular user not sudo.  I configured cpan to
elevate privileges as necessary with sudo.  I ended up wiping the whole
cpan installation and starting over using local lib rather than sudo.  For
now it seems more successful.


-- Jude  "There are four boxes to be used in
defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please use in that
order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.

On Mon, 27 Mar 2023, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:

> f...@dnsbed.com wrote:
> > On 2023-03-27 08:21, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > > I ran cpan and did quick configuration and chose sudo to elevate
> > > privileges when necessary.  Unfortunately I don't have write access
> > > on /usr/local/bin so cpan is crippled.
> >
> > try cpanminus?
> > $ sudo apt install cpanminus
>
> Yes, I haven't used cpan in many years. Use cpanm instead.
>
> As to the lack of write permission problem. I think we'll need more
> information about what you did and what the output was. If your sudo
> made you root, then how could you not have write access?
>
>



Re: cpan oddity

2023-03-27 Thread debian-user
f...@dnsbed.com wrote:
> On 2023-03-27 08:21, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > I ran cpan and did quick configuration and chose sudo to elevate
> > privileges when necessary.  Unfortunately I don't have write access
> > on /usr/local/bin so cpan is crippled.
> 
> try cpanminus?
> $ sudo apt install cpanminus

Yes, I haven't used cpan in many years. Use cpanm instead.

As to the lack of write permission problem. I think we'll need more
information about what you did and what the output was. If your sudo
made you root, then how could you not have write access?



Re: cpan oddity

2023-03-26 Thread fh

On 2023-03-27 08:21, Jude DaShiell wrote:

I ran cpan and did quick configuration and chose sudo to elevate
privileges when necessary.  Unfortunately I don't have write access on
/usr/local/bin so cpan is crippled.


-- Jude  "There are four boxes to be used in
defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please use in that
order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.


try cpanminus?
$ sudo apt install cpanminus



Re: cpan oddity

2023-03-26 Thread Dan Ritter
Jude DaShiell wrote: 
> I ran cpan and did quick configuration and chose sudo to elevate
> privileges when necessary.  Unfortunately I don't have write access on
> /usr/local/bin so cpan is crippled.

You can re-answer all the cpan questions by typing:

cpan o conf init

-dsr-



cpan oddity

2023-03-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
I ran cpan and did quick configuration and chose sudo to elevate
privileges when necessary.  Unfortunately I don't have write access on
/usr/local/bin so cpan is crippled.


-- Jude  "There are four boxes to be used in
defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please use in that
order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.