Bruce, As I explained in my previous, cpan needs to write to /Library/Perl/3.40/, a system directory, so it need to be run with sudo. Of course doing that causes the ownership of ~/.cpan to be root.
Regards, John Ralls > On Oct 5, 2024, at 16:27, Bruce Schuck <bsch...@asgard-systems.com> wrote: > > On 10/5/24 2:35 PM, Boniforti Flavio wrote: > > Ah! > > These lines are a clue. > >> Warning: You are not allowed to write into directory "/Users/me/.cpan/ >> sources/authors". > >> I'll continue, but if you encounter problems, they may be due > >> to insufficient permissions. > > It appears that the directory permissions for your ~/.cpan directory tree are > not correct. You need to fix that, then try running "cpan Finance::Quote" > again. > > sudo chown -R me /Users/me/.cpan > > Of course change "me" to your actual username. To be thorough, > > sudo chown -R me:group /Users/me/.cpan > > Where "group" is your primary group. If you don't know this, not to worry and > skip this. > > After running "chown", execute "cpan Finance::Quote" again. If you have > CPAN-minus installed you can also try "cpanm Finance::Quote". > > Bruce S. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
