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Unfortunately, the suggestion didn't work. In ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm for v1.83 of CPAN.pm, I made the following change:

<   'make_install_make_command' => q[/usr/bin/make],
---
>   'make_install_make_command' => [ q[sudo], q[/usr/bin/make] ],
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These were the results observed while trying to install a pure Perl distribution from CPAN:

cpan> install File::Marker
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /Users/jimk/.cpan/Metadata
  Database was generated on Sat, 28 Jan 2006 23:13:10 GMT
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
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(snip fetching messages)

Running install for module File::Marker
Running make for D/DA/DAGOLDEN/File-Marker-0.10.tar.gz
Warning: You are not allowed to write into directory "/Users/jimk/.cpa
+n/sources/authors/id/D/DA/DAGOLDEN".
    I'll continue, but if you encounter problems, they may be due
    to insufficient permissions.
Fetching with LWP:
  http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DA/DAGOLDEN/File-Marker-0.10.tar.gz
LWP failed with code[500] message[Cannot write to '/Users/jimk/.cpan/s
+ources/authors/id/D/DA/DAGOLDEN/File-Marker-0.10.tar.gz-1548': Permis
+sion denied]
Fetching with LWP:
  ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/D/DA/DAGOLDEN/File-Marker-0.1
+0.tar.gz
LWP failed with code[500] message[Cannot write to '/Users/jimk/.cpan/s
+ources/authors/id/D/DA/DAGOLDEN/File-Marker-0.10.tar.gz-1548': Permis
+sion denied]
Fetching with Net::FTP:
  ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/D/DA/DAGOLDEN/File-Marker-0.1
+0.tar.gz
Cannot open Local file /Users/jimk/.cpan/sources/authors/id/D/DA/DAGOL
+DEN/File-Marker-0.10.tar.gz: Permission denied
 at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/CPAN.pm line 2219
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(snip a lot of attempts to download the prerequisites, all of which failed)

Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file
(http://www.cpan.org/, ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/,
ftp://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/software/cpan/,
ftp://ftp.duke.edu/pub/perl/, ftp://cpan.cse.msu.edu/) are valid. The
urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o conf urllist push ftp://myurl/'

Could not fetch authors/id/D/DA/DAGOLDEN/File-Marker-0.10.tar.gz
Giving up on '/Users/jimk/.cpan/sources/authors/id/D/DA/DAGOLDEN/File-
+Marker-0.10.tar.gz'
Note: Current database in memory was generated on Sat, 28 Jan 2006 23:
+13:10 GMT
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And so it wasn't installed. When I restored MyConfig.pm to the version that came with 1.83, then temporarily hid the ~/.gnupg directory, then called sudo cpan, the module installed properly, with only the following warning message:

WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
Primary key fingerprint: [a key which I think is the module author's]
Signature for /Users/jimk/.cpan/sources/authors/id/D/DA/DAGOLDEN/CHECK
+SUMS ok
Fetching with LWP:
  http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DA/DAGOLDEN/CHECKSUMS
WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
Primary key fingerprint: [a key which I think is the module author's]
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So I'm pretty much back where I started.

jimk

In reply to Re^4: Can't use CPAN.pm once gpg installed by jkeenan1
in thread Can't use CPAN.pm once gpg installed by jkeenan1

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