Dear perl monks, I am a user of 10.6.8 snow leopard, and I have been willing to use perl for a very long time, however throughout this whole year i could not get perl to work for me and decided to give up on it. Until I purchased a new laptop and made it run on linux in which perl worked, cpan could even install everything. Thus I want to try again and make perl work on my mac. The main problem with perl on the mac was I could not install anything succesfully, now it gives me this response when i try to install cpanminus which is completely full of errors. I had macports installed before and i still have perlbrew installed, I can not find this folder /Users/bert/.cpan it does not appear in finder. I am sorry this question is getting rather chaotic but unfortunately i have no clue what to do. I want to install a perl with cpan on my desktop which will install it there so i dont have to see that Yaml is not installed and that it tries to install 8 dependencies unsuccesfully. I have a perl now in a folder called mydir and it has a lot of module files even the yaml it always claims not to find/mydir/perl/lib/perl5/CPAN/Meta/YAML.pm. If i can give you anymore information I am very willing to supply it, I have both Xcode installed as x11

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