Try

#man 1 cpan

 

f   Forces the specified action, when it normally would have failed.

 

Luck,

Les

 

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mathew Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: [rt-users] I've asked the beginner perl group but no one
responded
To: Winn Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


The cpan manpage doesn't list an 'f' option.  Does it exist and simply
isn't documented?

Mathew

 

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Winn Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

Mat,

How about trying

cpan -if HTML::FormatText
cpan -if XML::RS
cpan -if Apache::DBI


-winn


--- Mathew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm trying to make the (re-)installation of RT as
> painless as possible
> for future generations.  I've encountered a problem
> though in that I
> can't get HTML::FormatText, XML::RSS or Apache-DBI
> to install through
> `make fixdeps`.  As a result I've written a small
> script which parses
> the output of `make testdeps` for any lines
> containing "MISSING".
>
> I'm trying to pass these modules onto cpan and force
> their installation
> with no luck.  I've tried the following:
> CPAN::Shell::force(install,$mod_name)
> CPAN::Module::force(install,$mod_name)
> system "perl -MCPAN -e 'force install $mod_name'"
>
> None work.
>
> How can I take care of this?
>
> Mathew
> --
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> JJ: "You're listening to Metallica."
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> for it."
>
> Keep up with me and what I'm up to:
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