sudo cpan install Foo::Bar must actually be sudo cpan Foo::Bar.

Installing modules with cpan is the most frequent task, so you don't have to give it any command. Just give it the module names and let it go. I think its pretty clear from the documentation how you are supposed to call it. If there's something that it's not doing correctly, send me a bug report.

I'm not sure why you have to quit the CPAN shell when it doesn't see optional modules. If Test::Pod::Coverage isn't there, who cares? Why do you let that mess up your life? That module is designed and intended to be optional. It doesn't test any code, so it doesn't really matter. If it fails, you probably don't want to stop the module install process. We specifically make those modules optional so you don't have to install them and it's not more work for you. If you run across a distro that doesn't declare its prereqs correctly or completely, that's not the shell's fault and you should report it as a bug of the distro.

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