Thanks for the reply to both you and almut!

Your first suggestion worked out just fine. No problems there at all. I was able to do 'touch xyz' and it created the file without a hitch. So I tried the strace and came back with a 25M file, of which I searched for a permissions issue and it came back with this:

15290 open("/etc/shadow", O_RDONLY) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied +) 15290 stat64("/home/wright/.libnetrc", 0x8121b60) = -1 ENOENT (No such + file or directory) 15290 stat64("utils/Fcntl.pmc", 0xbfffd5e0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file +or directory) 15290 open("utils/Fcntl.pm", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No suc +h file or directory) 15290 stat64("/home/wright/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i686-linux/Fcntl. +pmc", 0xbfffd5e0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15290 open("/home/wright/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i686-linux/Fcntl.pm +", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15290 stat64("/home/wright/lib/perl­5/site_perl/5.8.4/Fcntl.pmc", 0xbf +ffd5e0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15290 open("/home/wright/lib/perl­5/site_perl/5.8.4/Fcntl.pm", O_RDONL +Y|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15290 stat64("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux/Fcntl.pmc", 0xbfffd5e0) += -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15290 open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux/Fcntl.pm", O_RDONLY|O_LARG +EFILE) = 4 15290 ioctl(4, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE, 0xbfffd3e0) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropr +iate ioctl for device) 15290 _llseek(4, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR) = 0 15290 brk(0x8499000) = 0x8499000 15290 read(4, "package Fcntl;\n\n=head1 NAME\n\nFcn"..., 4096) = 4096 15290 brk(0x849a000) = 0x849a000 15290 read(4, "SENFMT\t\t\n\t\t S_IFMT S_IMODE\n "..., 4096) = 102 +6 15290 brk(0x849b000) = 0x849b000 15290 brk(0x849c000) = 0x849c000 15290 brk(0x849d000) = 0x849d000 15290 brk(0x849e000) = 0x849e000 15290 brk(0x849f000) = 0x849f000 15290 read(4, "", 4096) = 0 15290 close(4) = 0 15290 brk(0x84a0000) = 0x84a0000 15290 stat64("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.so", {s +t_mode=S_IFREG|0555, st_size=11256, ...}) = 0 15290 stat64("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.bs", {s +t_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 15290 open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.so", O_RD +ONLY) = 4 15290 read(4, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\260\t\0 +"..., 1024) = 1024 15290 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0555, st_size=11256, ...}) = 0 15290 old_mmap(NULL, 14180, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 4, 0) = +0x2d6000 15290 mprotect(0x2d9000, 1892, PROT_NONE) = 0 15290 old_mmap(0x2d9000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_F +IXED, 4, 0x2000) = 0x2d9000 15290 close(4) = 0

Hopefully I've provided enough of a snippet there that it makes sense to you, because unfortunately it's left me more confused than when I started. I would think that since the CPAN shell is running in my local directory it should be able to create the directories it needs or am I wrong in that?

I've tried to even install some of the pre-requisites *before* trying Crypt::OpenPGP but when I then try to install the module, it seems to be saying that the pre-requisites that I've already (I thought) installed aren't there which makes no sense as they seem to have installed with no errors.

Finally, the df command returned:

Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 198980892 129116736 69864156 65% /

so I would think that I've got plenty of room to install all that I'm trying to do, don't I?


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In reply to Re^2: Problems installing Crypt:OpenPGP in local user area by Popcorn Dave
in thread Problems installing Crypt:OpenPGP in local user area by Popcorn Dave

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