How to skip a dependency when installing a Perl module using cpanp?

Question

I have the following error when trying to install Apache::Singleton with cpanp:

# cpanp i Apache::Singleton
Installing Apache::Singleton (0.15)
Running [/usr/bin/perl -e use strict; BEGIN { my $old = select STDERR; $|++; select $old; $|++; $0 = shift(@ARGV); my $rv = do($0); die $@ if $@; } /root/.cpanplus/5.20.0/build/Apache-Singleton-0.15/Makefile.PL]...
[   info] generating script t/TEST
Generating a Unix-style Makefile
Writing Makefile for Apache::Singleton
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
[MSG] Module 'Apache::Singleton' depends on 'Apache::Test', may need to build a 'CPANPLUS::Dist::Arch' package for it as well
[MSG] Module 'Apache::Singleton' depends on 'ExtUtils::MakeMaker', may need to build a 'CPANPLUS::Dist::Arch' package for it as well
[MSG] Module 'Apache::Singleton' depends on 'Test::More', may need to build a 'CPANPLUS::Dist::Arch' package for it as well
[MSG] Module 'Apache::Singleton' depends on 'mod_perl2', may need to build a 'CPANPLUS::Dist::Arch' package for it as well
==> Making package: perl-apache-singleton 0.15-1 (Wed Jun  4 22:32:47 FET 2014)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Missing dependencies:
  -> perl-apache-test>=1.35
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Missing dependencies:
  -> perl-apache-test>=0
==> ERROR: Could not resolve all dependencies.

But Apache::Test is already installed with the mod_perl package. I can verify this using perl -e 'use Apache::Test'. How can I tell cpanp to skip this dependency?

Answer 1

At the moment you can't skip dependencies, just tests

cpanp i ... --skiptest

an alternative way of installing the "easy way" could be cpanm, where you have a

cpanm ... --skip-installed

At least you could always just download the .deb file (or .rpm/.tgz, depending on your distro) and just extract it and extract the data.tgz (in .deb files, at least) to /.