First try touch /home/wright/.cpan/sources/xyz to make sure you really can create files there. If not, take a closer look at .cpan and .cpan/sources with "ls -al". Are you really the owner, is it maybe a symbolic link to somewhere you don't have write permissions to?

You might use strace -f -o /tmp/xyz as a prefix to your cpan invocation. You'll then find in /tmp/xyz all system calls done by cpan and even if you don't know much about unix you probably can identify the specific system call that resulted in the warning message somewhere near the end of the file. Check the man-page for that call or post it here for an interpretation.

Maybe the error message you got is wrong (bug in cpan or some installer!?), and it really is a full file system or a corrupted file system or a totally different directory that denies access. Try df /home/wright/.cpan/sources/ to check for space left on the partition it is in. This also shows you whether the dir is really in the file system you expect

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

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