Is it safe to do this? I read that it is not advisable to install by force. 2008/12/31 John Wesley Simpson Hibbs <john@swajime.com>

On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 20:00 +1300, Krsnendu dasa wrote:

I have run the cpan installation for this and it ends in an error. Can anyone help me to get past this? Running make install make test had returned bad status, *won't install without force*

You can try this:

$ sudo cpan cpan[1]> fforce notest install POE ... Would you like to skip the network tests? [n] y ... cpan[2]exit $

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