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Greg Dougherty
Greg Dougherty

Reputation: 3471

How do I change where cpan caches files?

I'm trying to install a bunch of Perl modules. I'm getting a lot of errors that look like this:

Cannot write to ‘/home/mayo/foo/.cpan/sources/authors/id/C/CH/CHROMATIC/SUPER-1.20190531.tar.gz.tmp10717’ (Disk quota exceeded).

How do I change the location of the .cpan directory?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 391

Answers (1)

mob
mob

Reputation: 118605

cpan likes to work out of $HOME/.cpan, and you probably don't want to try too hard to convince it to use something else.

The best advice is to make a symbolic link to $HOME/.cpan from a more bountiful file system.

Upvotes: 4

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