Recently, having decided to become more security-conscious, I installed Mac GNU Privacy Guard from http://macgpg.sourceforge.net/. Since then, I've been having problems installing Perl modules using the CPAN.pm interactive shell. Here is the output from an attempt to install a pure Perl module, Casey West's Email::Send: 

cpan> install Email::Send                                 
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /Users/jimk/.cpan/Metadata
  Database was generated on Sat, 28 Jan 2006 23:13:10 GMT
Running install for module Email::Send
Running make for C/CW/CWEST/Email-Send-2.03.tar.gz
CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok
CPAN: Module::Signature loaded ok

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So far so good, but what follows are warnings I never previously would have received. 

gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on configuration file `/Users/jimk/.gnu
+pg/gpg.conf'
gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on configuration file `/Users/jimk/.gnu
+pg/gpg.conf'
gpg: Signature made Sat Jan 28 18:35:45 2006 EST using DSA key ID 450F
+89EC
gpg: external program calls are disabled due to unsafe options file pe
+rmissions
gpg: keyserver communications error: general error
gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found

Signature invalid for distribution file. Please investigate.

Distribution id = C/CW/CWEST/Email-Send-2.03.tar.gz
    CPAN_USERID  CWEST (Casey West <casey@geeknest.com>)
    CALLED_FOR   Email::Send
    CHECKSUM_STATUS 
    CONTAINSMODS Email::Send::IO Email::Send::Sendmail Email::Send::NN
+TP Email::Send::SMTP Email::Send::Qmail Email::Send
    UPLOAD_DATE  2006-01-28
    incommandcolor 1
    localfile    /Users/jimk/.cpan/sources/authors/id/C/CW/CWEST/Email
+-Send-2.03.tar.gz

I'd recommend removing
/Users/jimk/.cpan/sources/authors/id/C/CW/CWEST/CHECKSUMS. Its signatu
+re
is invalid. Maybe you have configured your 'urllist' with
a bad URL. Please check this array with 'o conf urllist', and
retry.

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The upshot: Nothing gets installed.

I have double-checked my urllist; it contains the same mirrors I've been using for years. So I don't think that's where the problem lies. I suspect I don't understand the implications of using CPAN.pm on a machine where gpg is installed. But perhaps it's a problem with the particular version of CPAN.pm. Can anyone clarify?

Info: Perl 5.8.7; Mac OS X (10.3); CPAN.pm version 1.83.

Thank you very much.

Jim Keenan

In reply to Can't use CPAN.pm once gpg installed by jkeenan1

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