Hello All, I am learning perl now and thus far I like it. Though I noticed that cpan is not as pretty as I thought it was..

I noticed that cpan tries to compile a package doing make, make install and thus need root privs. Though, I run cpan in User all the time and thus can't build. After looking around, I found out that most people use sudo. But since of security reasons I don't want to use sudo (I wrote a sudoWorm to demostrade the dangers of sudo and thus I would be a bit of a Hypocrite to use sudo myself heh)

Anyway isn't there a way to run su -c "make install" instead? I don't mind I have to enter my root passwd for the install of a Module. I tried to run cpan as root. But that didnt really work nice either. Since I got quite a lot of rubbish. I have to configure it all the time every time I want to use it..

Oh and I build some packages myself with just going to the Folder and do make install myself. But I forgot to do the Deps. and now I am stuck with a package that doesnt work not wants to resolve it deps for me.. Any tips for me? Thanks!

But besides this big annoyance Perl give me a lot of spare time. Everything I used to do in C or ASM that took me like 20 Minutes take 2 Minutes now :) Thanks Perl ^^

Found it thanks !

In reply to Perl Cpan Question by RobinV

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