* Matisse Enzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-18 19:35]: > From your shell prompt: > > sudo cpan
No, if you used to use CPAN.pm as root, then instead say this: sudo tar cf - .cpan -C ~root | tar xvf - -C ~ sudo rm -r ~root/.cpan The first line simply produces a copy of .cpan from ~root in your own home directory, but owned by yourself. (Basically a more transactional way to do `cp -R && chown`.) After that, replace all references to ~root in .cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm with references to your own home, eg. perl -pi~ -e'BEGIN{$root=shift} s/\Q$root/$ENV{HOME}/' ~root .cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm Then you can invoke `cpan` as a regular user right away in order to make your config changes. -- *AUTOLOAD=*_;sub _{s/(.*)::(.*)/print$2,(",$\/"," ")[defined wantarray]/e;$1} &Just->another->Perl->hack; #Aristotle