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Do you start it with root privilege?

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Re^2: cpan trouble, where to start?
by PerlPeer (Novice) on Jan 09, 2013 at 07:00 UTC
    I don't know if I started with root privilege. I do have it, that means, I can install whatever I want, just need to give my PW.
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      sudo su might help.

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        Unfortunately this gives:
        
miya-saiko-no-iMac:~ arend$ sudo su cpan App::cpanminus
Password:
su: unknown login: cpan

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