CPAN problems

[navilon]

Can anyone help? Almost any module i try to get from cpan i get the following error:

Running make for A/AU/AUTRIJUS/Module-Signature-0.53.tar.gz
  Is already unwrapped into directory /home/media/.cpan/build/Module-Signature-0.53

  CPAN.pm: Going to build A/AU/AUTRIJUS/Module-Signature-0.53.tar.gz

    -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

[3david]

I'm having the same problem.

[johnnymac]

make sure you upgrade your CPAN::Bundle

[3david]

tried that with:

$ cpan
cpan> install Bundle::CPAN

but i get the same error messages

[quirpy]

I get the same error, cannot seem to find an answer in this forum

[3david]

Run cpan with sudo, and then it should work (worked for me)

[quirpy]

I was just trying that out as you posted
I read up on 'sudo' here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RootSudo

then entered:
> sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell

you'll be asked to enter your password

then entered:
cpan> install Bundle::CPAN

it cruised along, no problems.
every other module I installed after this went fine.

so it's all about permissions...

[ewelin]

I'm having this same problem and tried using sudo with no success... any other ideas?

[Zed]

try

sudo apt-get install build-essential

I'm guessing you're getting tripped up for want of the GNU make command.

[md81544]

I had exactly the same issues as described, and it wasn't because of a lack of GNU make... it finally worked when I ran 'cpan' AS ROOT - not as a sudo command.

If you haven't set a root password, you can become root by typing 'sudo su -'