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* Matisse Enzer <matisse@matisse.net> [2007-10-18 19:35]:
> From your shell prompt:
>
> sudo cpan
No, if you used to use CPAN.pm as root, then instead say this:
sudo tar cf - .cpan -C ~root | tar xvf - -C ~
sudo rm -r ~root/.cpan
The first line simply produces a copy of .cpan from ~root in your
own home directory, but owned by yourself. (Basically a more
transactional way to do `cp -R && chown`.)
After that, replace all references to ~root in
.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm with references to your own home, eg.
perl -pi~ -e'BEGIN{$root=shift} s/\Q$root/$ENV{HOME}/' ~root .cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm
Then you can invoke `cpan` as a regular user right away in order
to make your config changes.
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