On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 01:53 PM, Richard Jolly wrote:
here's your immediate problem: > CPAN build and cache directory? [/Users/rjolly/.cpan] y to accept the default, just press return. having answered 'y', your cache directory is now './y', which doesn't exist. You can correct that by editing CPAN/MyConfig.pm, but you needn't bother. Having installed 5.8.0 over the apple default (as i did, and came to regret), you'll need to run -MCPAN as root to install modules anyway. sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell should do it. you'll have to go through the initialisation again, to create the relevant ~/.cpan directories for root. best will
