On Sep 22, 2004, at 1:10 PM, Mark Wheeler wrote:
So I need to use "sudo" or is that neccasary in this case?
Yes, you need to run the CPAN shell with "sudo".
On Sep 22, 2004, at 9:29 AM, Ryan Perry wrote:
sometimes you have to use force:
cpan> force install PerlMagick
*Don't* just blindly do this immediately whenever something doesn't work.
*Do* find out if the problem is something you can safely ignore first.
For example, if a module had trouble compiling because of a missing C library, 'force install' won't help - all it will do is force the copying of a partially-built, non-functional set of files.
On the other hand, there was a networking module - I forget which one - that was failing one of its self-tests a few months ago. The reason was that the server it was trying to run its tests against had gone down. All the other tests passed perfectly; it was not a problem with the module, and so it was safe to ignore the failure and 'force install' the module.
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