Thanks MJ, I made a directory $HOME/library/myperl and tried to run the o conf makpl_arg command like this: O koha.conf makepl_arg "LIB=~/library/mperl/lib INSTALLMAN1DIR=~/library/myperl/man/man1 INSTALLMAN3DIR=~/library/myperl/man/man3" Which opened up the text editor and did nothing until I pressed "q". I then just added the three param lines above to the koha.conf (guessing this was right?) and tried to run the first failed install again: Perl -MCPAN -e 'install "Mail::Sendmail"' It ran normally until it was time to send an e-mail. That failed and said "Permission denied at /usr/shar/perl/5.6.1/ExtUtils/Install.pm." Am I supposed to run the installer.pl from a particular directory? Do I have to set the installation PREFIX anywhere else? Any suggestions welcome. -John -----Original Message----- From: MJ Ray [mailto:mjr@phonecoop.coop] Sent: 25 January 2007 14:31 To: uk@clarkent.com; koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: cRe: [Koha] Errors on Koha install on 1&1 server "John Clarke" <uk@clarkent.com> wrote:
I'm getting numerous permissions and Perl version errors/failures when attempting to install Koha on my 1&1 Business Pro account. I've pasted some of the error messages below. Perhaps the permissions problems occur because I don't have root access? [...]
Yes. You absolutely cannot install to /usr/local on that system. You need to set the installation PREFIX to something under your home directory (but probably not under your web root directory). Probably mkdir $HOME/myperl export SITEPREFIX=$HOME/myperl would fix most of them, but the official answer for the CPAN shell is on "man CPAN" under "FAQ" question 5 in my copy: <blockquote> 5) I am not root, how can I install a module in a personal directory? You will most probably like something like this: o conf makepl_arg "LIB=~/myperl/lib \ INSTALLMAN1DIR=~/myperl/man/man1 \ INSTALLMAN3DIR=~/myperl/man/man3" install Sybase::Sybperl </blockquote> Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Somerset, England. Work/Laborejo: http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ IRC/Jabber/SIP: on request/peteble.