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Posted on 2005-04-06 15:45:25-07 by brad
How to force an install
Hi All, I was installing a module (Net::LDAP) and it got interrupted. Now when I try to install it ( cpanp i Net::LDAP ) it says it's already installed although I can't use it because my perl script says its not there. I tried to uninstall and re-install. Still no go. How do I "force" the installation? Thanks!
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Posted on 2005-05-07 04:24:03-07 by drbean in response to 303
Re: How to force an install
I would find the directory where it was building the module, probably something like ~/.cpanplus/5.8.5/build/Net-LDAP-0.99, and run perl Makefile.PL, make, make test, sudo make install, by hand. CPAN has a way of forcing installs, but I couldn't find out how to do it in CPANPLUS.
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Posted on 2005-05-07 04:24:20-07 by drbean in response to 303
Re: How to force an install
I would find the directory where it was building the module, probably something like ~/.cpanplus/5.8.5/build/Net-LDAP-0.99, and run perl Makefile.PL, make, make test, sudo make install, by hand. CPAN has a way of forcing installs, but I couldn't find out how to do it in CPANPLUS.
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Posted on 2005-07-31 04:58:26-07 by hsquared in response to 303
Re: How to force an install
Don't know whether you still need this answer, but as far as I can tell, you have to reconfigure your CPANPLUS session, as in "CPAN Terminal> s reconfigure" and select y when it asks whether to force. Unless you are brave (and foolhearty), don't forget to switch back when you're done.
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Posted on 2005-12-22 17:09:46-08 by dami in response to 812
Re: How to force an install
Actually, instead of "s reconfigure" (which would overwrite the CPANPLUS configuration file), you can do :
s conf force 1
which enables forced installs just for the current session (not easy to guess from the doc, but it works...).
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