Re: MailBox v2.061 released

Elizabeth Mattijsen <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:38:08 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.mail-box
Message-ID	<p06210274bee1bd17be98@[192.168.56.3]>

At 3:13 PM +0200 6/24/05, Mark Overmeer wrote:
>* Vic Norton ([email protected]) [050624 15:06]:
>>  A problem installing Mail-Box-2.061:
>>
>>  I don't seem to be able to install the prerequisite
>>  "User-Identity-0.90" on my iMac (OS X 10.3.9). I have
>>  "User-Identity-0.70", but on "make install" for User-Identity-0.90 I
>>  get the error message
>>      Cannot forceunlink /Library/Perl/5.8.1/User/Identity.pm:
>>      Permission denied at /System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/File/Find.pm line 888
>>      make: *** [pure_site_install] Error 255
>
>It says that you have no permission to unlink the file, which means
>that you are not root... I'm not sure about the Mac, but I think you
>have to be root to install Perl modules....

sudo make install

should do the trick.  It's near to impossible to become root on Mac 
OS X other than by using "sudo".



Liz