[Catalyst] Is it normal to have lots of trouble installing catalyst?

[David Hodgkinson]

On 7 Feb 2006, at 18:24, John Napiorkowski wrote:

> I'm just asking for people experiences trying to
> install catalyst.  I've done a lot of web searches and
> all I get is that using catalyst is as easy as having
> a modern version of perl and typing "perl -MCPAN
> -e'install Task::Catalyst'" but that hasn't been the
> case for me.
>
> My typical experience with installing catalyst is that
> CPAN tries to install what appears to be hundreds of
> prerequisites and then dies for various reasons.
> Typical one of more of the required files dies but
> it's hard to tell since each required file seems to
> spawn off a dozen new required files and I kind of get
> lost as to what is dying and for which reason.

Same here on a stock Mac perl. plenty of forcing seemed
to do the trick.