I tried to install Tk for perl since I want to extend my perl knowledge to GUI programming. I open up CPAN, type in install Tk, and this happens: 

cpan[5]> install Tk
Running install for module 'Tk'
Running make for S/SR/SREZIC/Tk-804.029.tar.gz
Catching error: "mkdir /Users/fenimore/.cpan/sources/authors/id/S/SR: 
+Permission denied at /Library/Perl/Updates/5.12.3/CPAN/FTP.pm line 51
+9\cJ" at /Library/Perl/Updates/5.12.3/CPAN.pm line 392
    CPAN::shell() called at -e line 1

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Er… most of the problems I have had in the past were easily solved by simply changing permissions around in finder, but this time, I just don't know what's going on. Since it has to do with actual code, I probably shouldn't mess around with it. Can someone help me out here? And does anyone else have this problem?

In reply to Problems with CPAN: installing Tk by slinky773

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