Michael Peppler wrote on Sunday, 28 November 2004: >The most likely issue here is that the .cpan directory (and its >children) is not owned by the user that is running the "perl >Makefile.PL". > >My *guess* is that you originally ran the CPAN utility as root using >"sudo". It seems you are spot on; As your *suggestion*:
>You can fix the ownership with: > >cd ~ >sudo chown -R <my_user_name> .cpan Worked a treat! Champion! Tack sà mycket Michael!