irvken has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

every time I run

install Bundle::CPAN it crashes out at the end 
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for CPAN
     -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
Bundle summary: The following items in bundle Bundle::CPAN had install
+ation
problems:
  Digest::MD5 Compress::Zlib Archive::Tar Bundle::libnet Term::ReadKey
  Term::ReadLine::Perl CPAN::WAIT CPAN and the following items had pro
+blems
  during recursive bundle calls: Net::Cmd Net::Telnet

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I've made afew changes to my Config.pm which helped the script run a bit further but I think there must still be problems, for instance should there be a path in for make 
commit             Commit changes to disk
    defaults           Reload defaults from disk
    init               Interactive setting of all options

    build_cache        10
    build_dir          /home/sean/downloads/scoop/scoop-0.9/scripts/y/
+build
    cache_metadata     1
    cpan_home          /home/sean/.cpan
    dontload_hash
    ftp
    ftp_proxy
    getcwd             cwd
    gzip               /bin/gzip
    http_proxy
    inactivity_timeout 0
    index_expire       1
    inhibit_startup_message 0
    keep_source_where  /home/sean/downloads/scoop/scoop-0.9/scripts/y/
+sources
    links
    make
    make_arg
    make_install_arg
    makepl_arg
    ncftp
    ncftpget
    no_proxy
    pager
    prerequisites_policy ask
    scan_cache         atstart
    shell
    tar                /bin/tar
    term_is_latin      1
    unzip
    urllist
        http://cpan.hambule.co.uk/
    wait_list
        wait://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de:1404
    wget

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Re: CPAN crashes out
by bart (Canon) on May 01, 2003 at 11:06 UTC
    You don't mention what platform you have... but judging from your paths, it must be a derivative of Unix.

    Anyway, the problem appears to be in creating the makefile for CPAN.pm. Try doing the manual installation, when you get the necessary archives. You know: expand the archive, chdir to the main directory, type perl Makefile.PL, next make, make test, make install — only continuing on the next step if the previous step didn't barf. You can read the whole official checklist in perlfaq8, and likely in the README file of any module you may try to install.

    I expect it to bust on perl Makefile.PL. Perhaps it may give you more detailed info on what is wrong.

    If you get it to install, and the new CPAN still doesn't work right, feel free to come back.

    p.s. Are you sure you have the required permission to install modules? It looks like you run CPAN as yourself, not as root, by the look of CPAN's home directory.

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      heh, I'm running Red hat 8.0 Linux and all I wanted to do was install a Content management system (scoop) to create a website/log. I've been at it 3 days now :( , and appear to have made a right pigs ear of it (I fear I may have to trash my hard drive and start all over again pretty soon, I've got weird files/paths/permmisions all over the place). I was not intending to end up in the corridors of this Monastery at all.

      OK then, a couple of questions concerning your advice

      1. When you say "Try doing the manual installation, when you get the necessary archives." do you mean Perl or CPAN?

      2. What is the proper place to unpack the archive when I've got it?
      I think a lot of my previous problems are down to not unarchiving in the right place.

      Thanks for your help
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        Answers:
        1. CPAN — I think it's there that it fails
        2. doesn't matter where, as long as you have the right to create files there
        What could matter, is having write access in the final stage, make install, but we'll get to that if you get that far. Er, when. :]
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