The root problem is probably this: You try to install as root, but the config file cpan uses is in /Users/me/, probably your home dir. That is definitely not how it should be. Either install everything as user (without sudo, first delete .cpan before you do this) or open a root shell and make sure your home is the home of root (echo $HOME)

In detail your error message might happen if your home dir "/Users/me" is mounted over NFS. In that case root has the rights of user nobody and can't read .cpan if you created that as normal user

Or curl failed to get the files for some reason and the rename won't work on a file that isn't there. But I would hope that cpan gives better error messages for that condition than 'rename failed'

In reply to Re: cpan: unable to install modules by jethro
in thread cpan: unable to install modules by 7stud

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