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Depending on your setup but these may work.

1)su -; then set up paths etc and do the whole process as root. You may need to fiddle with the build directories initially.

2)sudo make install; it's only this last stage that needs the special permissions. However some modules seem to also do some other tasks here that may fail.

3)Change the permissions on the perl lihrary directories. I've done this, putting my self in a perladmin group and making that group own /usr/local/lib/perl5 (or where ever on your system).

4)I think that CPANPLUS has the option to sudo for the make install phase, so install that and configure appropriately.

Some of these are inherinantly less safe than others, use what is best for you and your environment.

In reply to Re: Im struggling to use cpan to install modules by tweetiepooh
in thread Im struggling to use cpan to install modules by richill

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