CPAN.pm requires configuration, but most of it can be done automatically. If you answer 'no' below, you will enter an interactive dialog for each configuration option instead. Would you like to configure as much as possible automatically? [yes] yes Warning: You do not have write permission for Perl library directories. To install modules, you need to configure a local Perl library directory or escalate your privileges. CPAN can help you by bootstrapping the local::lib module or by configuring itself to use 'sudo' (if available). You may also resolve this problem manually if you need to customize your setup. What approach do you want? (Choose 'local::lib', 'sudo' or 'manual') [local::lib] Autoconfiguration complete. Attempting to bootstrap local::lib... Writing /home/mh/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm for bootstrap... commit: wrote '/home/mh/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm' Fetching with LWP: http://www.cpan.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz Reading '/home/mh/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz' ............................................................................DONE Fetching with LWP: http://www.cpan.org/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz Reading '/home/mh/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz' Out of memory! Killed