The force install worked however

the installed pm was

package File::Copy::Recursive;

use strict;
use warnings;

use Carp;
use File::Copy; 
use File::Spec; #not really needed because File::Copy already gets it,
+ but for good measure :)

require Exporter;
our @ISA = qw(Exporter);
our @EXPORT_OK = qw(fcopy rcopy dircopy);
our $VERSION = '0.05';
sub VERSION { $VERSION; }

our $MaxDepth = 0;
our $KeepMode = 1;
..........

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When called from my main perl script I got an error message to the effect that "there was no dircopy() subroutine.

When I changed the installed pm module to

package File::Copy::Recursive;

use strict;
use warnings;

use Carp;
use File::Copy;
use File::Spec;

require Exporter;

use vars qw(@ISA @EXPORT);
@ISA = qw(Exporter);
@EXPORT = qw(fcopy rcopy dircopy);

our $MaxDepth = 0;
our $KeepMode = 1;
............

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It worked perfectly. For now I'm a happy camper (sort of); when I upgrade to 10.3.x I'll check this out.

BTW - Is upgrading Perl a big deal?

In reply to Re^4: CPAN module strangeness by RobertJ
in thread CPAN module strangeness by RobertJ

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