in reply to force install in cpan
I usually use this mess: perl -MCPAN -e "CPAN::Shell->force(qw(install IO::Socket::SSL));"
It's not exactly intuitive and there may be a better way... but it works. It also hints at a larger API (CPAN, CPAN::Shell), which appears to have grown rather organically IMO.
-Paul
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