Fellow monks,

I'm having problems installing Crypt::OpenPGP in my local space on my host and as of yet, they've unfortunately been less than helpful about solving the problem and coming from a windows background I'm completely lost about the error message I'm getting.

To start off, I installed a local CPAN shell as outlined by zaxo in Re: Creating my own CPAN directory which went successfully as I've been able to install some of the pre-requisites for the module without a problem. But when I try to use the CPAN shell to install Crypt::OpenPGP and let it fetch all the requisite additional modules I get the following: 

/usr/bin/perl5.8.0 -Iinc Makefile.PL --config= --installdeps=Class::Er
+rorHandler,0,Convert::ASN1,0.10,Crypt::DES_EDE3,0
*** Installing dependencies...
*** You are not allowed to write to the directory '/home/wright/.cpan/
+sources';
   the installation may fail due to insufficient permissions.

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

[download]

I would assume that I've got write permission since it's my space. The source directory's permissions are 755 so that shouldn't be an issue, and I set the prefix in the CPAN shell to point to my local directory before I tried to install the module.

Can anybody offer any insight as to what I might try or what I'm missing here?

Thanks in advance!

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In reply to Problems installing Crypt:OpenPGP in local user area by Popcorn Dave

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