I premise that I have configured the makepl_arg configuration variable suitably (not that it particularly matters with this particular problem, I suppose) to use CPAN for installing some modules in my home directory on a system I'm allowed as a user but on which I don't have root privileges. At a certain point I get this:

*** ExtUtils::AutoInstall configuration finished.
*** Installing dependencies...
*** You are not allowed to write to the directory '/home/blazar/.cpan/
+sources';
    the installation may fail due to insufficient permissions.
sudo: error while loading shared libraries: liblber-2.2.so.7: cannot o
+pen shared object file: No such file or directory

==> Should we try to install the required module(s) anyway? [n]

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The permissions for /home/blazar/.cpan/sources are as follows:

$ ls -ld /home/blazar/.cpan/sources
drwxr-xr-x 4 blazar users 4096 Oct  7  2004 /home/blazar/.cpan/sources

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What's going on? How can I get around it? I see sudo(8) mentioned above. Why is it? I gather I'm installing as a user, in userland. May that be the problem?

In reply to Problem installing module in my own home with CPAN.pm by blazar

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