what should I do before using the cpan command ?

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I execute the cpan command, I got this error message.

Your configuration suggests "/root/.cpan" as your CPAN.pm working directory. I could not create this directory due to this error: mkdir /root/.cpan: Permission denied at /usr/share/perl/5.8/CPAN.pm line 553 Please make sure the directory exists and is writable.

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Re: what should I do before using the cpan command ? by Anonymous Monk on Aug 05, 2009 at 06:34 UTC
See Yes, even you can use CPAN, Personal library with CPAN	[reply]
Re: what should I do before using the cpan command ? by Bloodnok (Vicar) on Aug 05, 2009 at 13:00 UTC
Inferring from the error message, you are attempting to update the system libraries as a user not having super-user privileges, so does this work for you ?? `sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell` [download] A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))	[reply] [d/l]