Installing CPANPLUS as non-root on Mac OS X 10.3

nefertari has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Monks,

I would like to install the CPANPLUS module for my usual account on my Mac. The OS is 10.3.1 with Perl 5.8.1-RC3. After unpacking I tried perl Makefile.PL and also perl Makefile.PL LIB=~/Library/lib.

In both cases I run into some permission issues when running make, especially so funny ones like:

*** You are not allowed to write to the directory '/Users/judithdo/.cp
+anplus';
    the installation may fail due to insufficient permissions.
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(judithdo is my account!) and later on errors of the following type:

MAKE INSTALL failed! -  in CPANPLUS::Internals::Make::_make at Thu Nov
+ 13 23:35:27 2003 at /Users/judithdo/CPANPLUS-0.045/lib/CPANPLUS/Inte
+rnals/Make.pm line 513
An error occurred handling module Compress::Zlib in CPANPLUS::Internal
+s::Install::_install_module at Thu Nov 13 23:35:27 2003 at /Users/jud
+ithdo/CPANPLUS-0.045/lib/CPANPLUS/Internals/Install.pm line 170
Installing Compress::Zlib failed! in CPANPLUS::Backend::install at Thu
+ Nov 13 23:35:27 2003 at /Users/judithdo/CPANPLUS-0.045/lib/CPANPLUS/
+Backend.pm line 254
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Since it is my own computer, I could work as root, but prefer not too, because of too little experience. My main account is also not in the sudoers group.

Could you please tell me the right options, so that it works?

Thanks,

nefertari

update: I read the readme, looked at the module install guides here around, asked google (and groups.google) and still had no luck, but perhaps I used the wrong terms.

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Re: Installing CPANPLUS as non-root on Mac OS X 10.3 by Nkuvu (Priest) on Nov 14, 2003 at 17:53 UTC
First thing I'd do is to check permissions on the .cpanplus directory. If those look OK to you I'd head over to A Guide to Installing Modules and do some quick reading.	[reply]
Re: Re: Installing CPANPLUS as non-root on Mac OS X 10.3 by nefertari (Chaplain) on Nov 14, 2003 at 18:09 UTC
Concerning the permissions: `ls -al` gives: `drwxr-xr-x 13 judithdo judithdo 442 13 Nov 23:35 .cpanplus`, so I should have no problem. Concerning the link: I read this (and the readme from CPANPLUS, and all the other stuff I could think of (google, groups.google)) and am still stuck. I think I should have included this in the original question and will do so now.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Installing CPANPLUS as non-root on Mac OS X 10.3 by nefertari (Chaplain) on Nov 15, 2003 at 09:03 UTC
Replying to myself ;-) I switched to my admin account, set the cpanplus-directory to `/Users/Shared/cpanplus`, had some of the same trouble (permissions etc.), but there a `chmod -R a+w` was nearly enough. HTML::HeadParser still did not install (the install hung after the question whether to decode Unicode-entities or not), I installed afterwards from the CPANPLUS/shell, there it worked. It seems that I have to install the modules as the admin-user. If someone has a solution for the original problem: It is still appreciated.	[reply] [d/l] [select]