Hi Monks,

For the first time in my life I have to install modules under linux (I have had no problems with Windows PPM)

I searched and found 128077 some information here about using CPAN and I have sucessfully installed a couple of modules - so far so good.

Now I try installing XML::DOM and a whole bunch of dependencies arise which I answer 'yes'. However something is not quite right and it fails on the test saying is can't locate XML/parser.pm in @INC.

No probs.. I try installing that package: 

Running install for module XML::Parser
Running make for M/MS/MSERGEANT/XML-Parser-2.34.tar.gz
  Is already unwrapped into directory /root/.cpan/build/XML-Parser-2.3
+4
  Has already been processed within this session
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

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Now one wise person said that:
2. Unfortunately, many CPAN authors are still not used to -- or don't know about -- setting PREREQ_PM in Makefile.PL. So be prepared to get the "Can't locate foo/bar.pm in @INC" error while running make test.

Can anyone tell me how I can prepare myself for this?

A) Should I try and find the author of the dependant module and ask for a sollution?

B) Is there a way of finding out exactly what went wrong?

C) Could it be my version of Perl - in which case I would need to updated it (how I dont know yet)

D) Is the test irrelevent and somehow 'forcing' it will suffice?

If you can answer any of these that would be a great help.

PS Thanks, 

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