See CPAN on prerequisites_policy, which you can change with:

> cpan
cpan> o conf prerequisites_policy follow
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Hi,

Thank you for your suggestion. I made the change (see below). But it was still asking me the question "Shall I follow them..."

    prerequisites_policy [follow]
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Bring up a CPAN shell:

perl -MCPAN -e shell

Run these two commands in the CPAN shell:

o conf prerequisites_policy follow

o conf commit

You should exit and re-start the CPAN shell, and attempt to install a module. All dependencies should be automatically confirmed.

You may still have to answer non-module install related questions-- such as connecting to the internet.

Line 1 changes your dependency policy to follow instead of ask. Line 2 persists the change to your CPAN configuration file.

Thanks. I did what you wrote. And still the problem exists. Is it possible that it will still ask that question if the module of a dependent module has dependencies?

Can you specify which module? Also, you could turn off all questions by setting some env variables, but that only works if the modules are respecting the same vars.

Also, can you share the message you are getting?

You can also set the following environment variables before running the cpan shell, which will avoid all questions, whether by the cpan shell or by modules you are installing

export PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1
export PERL_EXTUTILS_AUTOINSTALL="--defaultdeps"

perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::CPAN'
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You may be interested in App::cpanminus the new zero configuration CPAN client