perlquestion 7stud <p>Dear Monks,</p> <p>I installed perlbrew (0.58) and one of the advantages of using perlbrew is stated on the homepage:</p> <pre> perlbrew is a tool to manage multiple perl installations in your $HOME directory. They are completely isolated perl universes. This approach has many benefits: No need to run sudo to install CPAN modules, any more.</pre> <p>However, when I try to install cpan modules, I get errors like this:</p> <pre> Running install for module 'HTML::TreeBuilder' Running make for C/CJ/CJM/HTML-Tree-5.03.tar.gz mkdir /Users/7stud/.cpan/sources/authors/id/C/CJ: Permission denied at /Users/7stud/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.0/lib/5.16.0/CPAN/FTP.pm line 519. </pre> <p>I checked all the permissions in the path listed in the error message:</p> <pre> mkdir /Users/7stud/.cpan/sources/authors/id/C/CJ</pre> <p>...and I own all the directories until the C directory. Here is the listing for the id directory:</p> <pre> ~/.cpan/sources/authors/id$ ls -al total 0 drwxr-xr-x 19 7stud staff 646 Dec 31 03:23 . drwxr-xr-x 5 7stud staff 170 Jan 13 13:36 .. drwxr-xr-x 6 7stud staff 204 Dec 31 03:24 A drwxr-xr-x 4 root staff 136 Jan 1 02:53 B drwxr-xr-x 4 root staff 136 Jan 6 00:01 C drwxr-xr-x 5 7stud staff 170 Dec 31 03:21 D drwxr-xr-x 3 7stud staff 102 Dec 29 14:43 E drwxr-xr-x 3 root staff 102 Dec 31 03:23 F drwxr-xr-x 3 7stud staff 102 Dec 18 20:21 J drwxr-xr-x 3 root staff 102 Dec 18 20:42 K drwxr-xr-x 3 7stud staff 102 Dec 18 20:21 L drwxr-xr-x 5 7stud staff 170 Dec 18 20:22 M drwxr-xr-x 3 7stud staff 102 Dec 18 20:23 O drwxr-xr-x 3 7stud staff 102 Dec 29 14:52 P drwxr-xr-x 3 root staff 102 Dec 18 20:42 R drwxr-xr-x 3 7stud staff 102 Dec 18 20:23 S drwxr-xr-x 5 7stud staff 170 Jan 5 23:57 T drwxr-xr-x 3 7stud staff 102 Dec 18 20:25 Y drwxr-xr-x 3 root staff 102 Dec 31 03:22 Z </pre> <p>Some of those letter directories are owned by me, and some are owned by root. Should I just change the ownership of all those "letter directories" to 7stud, or is there a reason that perlbrew is giving root the ownership of some of those diretories?</p> <p>Thanks.</p>