I would have used cpanm --reinstall DIST which would force the attempt to reinstall without skipping the tests, isn't it?

McA

Ah, nice. just checked, and cpan doesn't have this. It should, though.

Finally, someone has given me an advantage to cpanm.

• Has --reinstall
• Uses less memory, allowing it to be used on some embedded systems I don't use.
• You have to use curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl - App::cpanminus instead of press Enter the first time you use it.
• Less configurable.
• Hides output, so it appears to be doing nothing for minutes at a time.

Hi ikegami,

I'm sure it's because of lack of knowledge on my side. But starting with cpanm in combination with local::lib I do the following very often to test distributions and to get a feeling about the dependency tree resulting from installing these:

mkdir mylib
cpanm -v -L ./mylib Probably::Fat::Dist # yes, yes -v: I also like out
+put
perl -Mlocal::lib=./mylib -MProbably::Fat::Dist -E'say "Get feet wet w
+ith Probably::Fat::Dist"'
rm -rf ./mylib
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I'm sure there is a way to do it with cpan, but I never learned it neither used it. Can you show an equivalent? (I'm really interested on systems without cpanm)

Regards
McA