Regarding the issue of Smart-Comments, the CPAN.pm shell reports 

Module id = Smart::Comments
    CPAN_USERID  AUTRIJUS 
        (Autrijus Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>)
    CPAN_VERSION 0.01
    CPAN_FILE    A/AU/AUTRIJUS/Smart-Comments-0.01.tar.gz
    INST_FILE    (not installed)

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which indicates that the CPAN/PAUSE indices associate Smart::Comments with Autrijus Tang (note - the reported CPAN_FILE isn't available on CPAN). Most likely the reason that DCONWAY/Smart-Comments-1.0.1.tar.gz isn't reported is that ownership of Smart::Comments hasn't been transferred to Damian Conway, or a co-ownership hasn't been established.

Within the CPAN/CPLANPLUS shells you can always specify a specific distribution to install: 

  cpan> install DCONWAY/Smart-Comments-1.0.1.tar.gz

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if you want to do so for a version other than that that the CPAN/PAUSE indices associate a particular module with.

In reply to Re: howto install modules by randyk
in thread howto install modules by powerman

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