Unable to install a particular CPAN module using CPAN

sierrathedog04 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

The command sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install Module::Name' usually finds and installs the CPAN module I want on my Mac/Perl 5.10 installation.

I wish to download and install the fp module at http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/fp-0.03/lib/fp.pm. The source code identifies this module as being named fp.

But when I run from the command line:

sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install fp'

I get the following error:

Warning: Cannot install fp, don't know what it is.

The error message tells me to us "i /fp/" but it doesn't give any examples of how to do that from the command line. Can anybody help?

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Re: Unable to install a particular CPAN module using CPAN by LTjake (Prior) on Jul 05, 2010 at 18:47 UTC
It appears that fp was not indexed by PAUSE because it is owned by KARASIK and not STEVAN. A grep of the 02packages.details.txt.gz file shows the following: `fp::functionals 0.02 S/ST/STEVAN/fp-0.03.tar.gz fp::lambda 0.01 S/ST/STEVAN/fp-0.03.tar.gz fp::lambda::utils 0.01 S/ST/STEVAN/fp-0.03.tar.gz` [download] Installing `fp::functionals` should do the trick, except that it fails tests for me. You'll have to force install it. -- "Go up to the next female stranger you see and tell her that her "body is a wonderland." My hypothesis is that she’ll be too busy laughing at you to even bother slapping you." (src)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Unable to install a particular CPAN module using CPAN by sierrathedog04 (Hermit) on Jul 05, 2010 at 19:23 UTC
The following worked as root: perl -MCPAN -e shell force install fp::functionals Thanks to the people who helped!	[reply]
Re^2: Unable to install a particular CPAN module using CPAN by dk (Chaplain) on Jul 05, 2010 at 20:57 UTC
Sweet zombie Jesus, where did you find that fp is owned by me?! :o Not that I mind, but it's totally a surprise, it almost woke me up	[reply]
Re^3: Unable to install a particular CPAN module using CPAN by LTjake (Prior) on Jul 06, 2010 at 00:56 UTC
I did a peek at the permissions for fp on PAUSE. FWIW, I've noticed you have a large number of lowercase namespaces reserved (see the bottom of this list). A little bit of investigation leads to a guess that an upload of the Prima dist happened to index all of the examples, which had a number of namespaces used. Perhaps you could go in to PAUSE and give up primary maintenance status of the namespaces you don't need? -- "Go up to the next female stranger you see and tell her that her "body is a wonderland." My hypothesis is that she’ll be too busy laughing at you to even bother slapping you." (src)	[reply]
Re^4: Unable to install a particular CPAN module using CPAN by dk (Chaplain) on Jul 06, 2010 at 18:43 UTC
Re^5: Unable to install a particular CPAN module using CPAN by LTjake (Prior) on Jul 06, 2010 at 19:10 UTC
Re: Unable to install a particular CPAN module using CPAN by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Jul 05, 2010 at 18:48 UTC
You could do: `sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install STEVAN/fp-0.03.tar.gz'` [download] Or from the cpan shell: `cpan> install STEVAN/fp-0.03.tar.gz` [download] Or from the command line: `cpan STEVAN/fp-0.03.tar.gz` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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