Is it safe to do this? I read that it is not advisable to install by force.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/31 John Wesley Simpson Hibbs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@swajime.com">john@swajime.com</a>></span><br>
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On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 20:00 +1300, Krsnendu dasa wrote:<br>
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I have run the cpan installation for this and it ends in an error. Can anyone help me to get past this?<br></div><div class="Ih2E3d">
Running make install<br>
make test had returned bad status, <b>won't install without force</b><br>
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You can try this:<br>
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$ sudo cpan<br>
cpan[1]> fforce notest install POE<br>
...<br>
Would you like to skip the network tests? [n] y<br>
...<br>
cpan[2]exit<br>
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