Re: Test::Simple will install, but not be detected as an appropriate dependency in CPAN

Best guess is that somehow your @INC has got messed up. The reported version of Test::Simple of 0.98 is the version supplied by your OS (ubuntu 14.04). Your initial installation of the module via cpan indicates that this newer version has been installed under /root/perl5/lib/perl5 - is that path in your @INC or not? If so where is it relative to the location of the Test::More version from the deb?

Be very careful mixing vendor perl, vendor modules and third party modules especially when mixing different versions of the same module like this.

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Re^2: Test::Simple will install, but not be detected as an appropriate dependency in CPAN by Weebo (Novice) on Jul 09, 2015 at 18:06 UTC
It turns out that no, `/root/perl5/lib/perl5` was not in my `@INC` I ran `export PERL5LIB=/root/perl5/libe/perl5:$PERL5LIB` and it appears that everything is now installing properly. However, when I try to run a perl dependent software I get the error `Can't locate forks.pm in @INC (you may need to install the forks module)`, so it seems that point @INC to this root library does not include the modules I had already installed. I'll simply reinstall them though.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Test::Simple will install, but not be detected as an appropriate dependency in CPAN by Weebo (Novice) on Jul 09, 2015 at 20:49 UTC
Now I seem to have shifted the problem. CPAN says forks.pm is installed and up to date, but Maker (a program that uses forks.pm) still says it can't find it. Running `locate forks.pm` returns nothing.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Test::Simple will install, but not be detected as an appropriate dependency in CPAN by Anonymous Monk on Jul 09, 2015 at 21:08 UTC
So compare shebangs (commandline, Maker), compare @INC, and figure out the difference You can always installl "forks" in a different INSTALL_BASE and tell "Maker" about it	[reply]