[Chicago-talk] Ownership problems with CPAN

Jay Strauss me at heyjay.com
Wed Sep 17 00:25:08 CDT 2003


Hi, I'm running Debian Woody, I'm trying to get (and install) Date::Format,
but I keep getting permission problems.  Besides just getting the source
myself and installing it, how can I make cpan work around the below:

thanks
Jay

cpan> get Date::Format
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /usr/local/src/cpan/Metadata
  Database was generated on Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:45:36 GMT
Running get for module Date::Format
CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok
Checksum for
/usr/local/src/cpan/sources/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/TimeDate-1.16.tar.gz ok
Scanning cache /usr/local/src/cpan/build for sizes
TimeDate-1.16/
TimeDate-1.16/lib/
TimeDate-1.16/lib/Date/
TimeDate-1.16/lib/Date/Language/
TimeDate-1.16/lib/Date/Language/Sidama.pm
/bin/tar: TimeDate-1.16/lib/Date/Language/Sidama.pm: Cannot change ownership
to uid 500, gid 100: Operation not permitted
TimeDate-1.16/lib/Date/Language/Finnish.pm
/bin/tar: TimeDate-1.16/lib/Date/Language/Finnish.pm: Cannot change
ownership to uid 500, gid 0: Operation not permitted
TimeDate-1.16/lib/Date/Language/Amharic.pm
/bin/tar: TimeDate-1.16/lib/Date/Language/Amharic.pm: Cannot change
ownership to uid 500, gid 100: Operation not permitted
....




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