While you can use Perl -MCPAN -e'shell', you can also use the 'cpan command' which includes -i install and -f force flags. So I would try<br><br>cpan -fi Test::Harness<br><br>The other option is to figure out where it stores that it should automatically load dependencies, and disable that, so an install only reports dependencies, rather than trying to install them.<br>
<br>I had no problems when I installed Bundle::CPAN a few weeks back ... but I did have problems differentiating between the Perl5.10 I installed for my own use, and the Perl5.8 Mac OSX uses<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Quantum Mechanic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:quantum.mechanic.1964@gmail.com">quantum.mechanic.1964@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Mark Fowle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mfowle@navicominc.com" target="_blank">mfowle@navicominc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Run through each one at a time:</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">File::Spec<br>
Scalar::Util<br>
Test::More<br>
Test::Harness.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><div>Thanks, good idea.<br><br>I've been looking at my cpan config file, maybe I've specified the path to perl for makepl incorrectly. So the individual module would install, but the next one dependent on it wouldn't see it (PERL5LIB doesn't match makepl path?) <br>
<br>About once a year I go through this, and recollection dawns on me after lots of hairpulling. I'm thinking "Surely this stuff is tested, right?", and it is. But the user isn't. <br></div></div><div><div>
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