Comments on: Setting up the Perl CPAN module installer http://www.itauthor.com/2007/10/11/setting-up-the-perl-cpan-module-installer/ Stuff about technical writing and software Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:42:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ac http://www.itauthor.com/2007/10/11/setting-up-the-perl-cpan-module-installer/comment-page-1/#comment-4767 ac Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:46:52 +0000 http://www.itauthor.com/wordpress/2007/10/11/setting-up-the-perl-cpan-module-installer/#comment-4767 Thanks Brian, but that seems way too easy! :-) Alistair Thanks Brian, but that seems way too easy!
:-)

Alistair

]]> By: brian d foy http://www.itauthor.com/2007/10/11/setting-up-the-perl-cpan-module-installer/comment-page-1/#comment-4764 brian d foy Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:14:00 +0000 http://www.itauthor.com/wordpress/2007/10/11/setting-up-the-perl-cpan-module-installer/#comment-4764 It's easier just to use the cpan command that comes with Perl. Just tell it which modules you want to install: % cpan Foo::Bar Baz::Quux If you need to force install something, perhaps because a module fails its tests, use the -f switch: % cpan -f -i Foo::Bar Baz::Quux It's easier just to use the cpan command that comes with Perl. Just tell it which modules you want to install:

% cpan Foo::Bar Baz::Quux

If you need to force install something, perhaps because a module fails its tests, use the -f switch:

% cpan -f -i Foo::Bar Baz::Quux

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