First off, you ought to investigate the excellent CPAN.pm to help automate module installation. It really does take a lot of the drudgery out of the whole process.

Mac OS X indeed comes installed with Perl 5.6... your problem may be related to a flaw in your main Perl installation, or it could simply be that you aren't installing as root. If you are relatively new to UNIX-think, generally you have to be logged in as root (aka the "superuser") in order to compile and install new programs. One way to do this is to simply type "su root". The system will ask for your root user password, and then you should be able to compile and install to your heart's delight.

It's possible that the "root" user account on your machine hasn't been enabled yet... if so you can enable it through the NetInfo program in the utilities folder in applications IIRC. (I didn't have to enable it, but then I had previously installed the Public Beta.)

If you're still having trouble let us know and we'll see what the deal is.

Gary Blackburn
Trained Killer

In reply to Re: Perl and OSX by Trimbach
in thread Perl and OSX by TrinityInfinity

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