I'm pretty much a newbie; used Perl very casually over the years, but never got too deep. Right now I'm trying to convert my company's docs into the Wikipedia format (MediaWiki), and I found a package http://search.cpan.org/~diberri/HTML-WikiConverter-0.30/WikiConverter.pm that promises to do that for HTML. (btw, if someone has a better way to do this, regardless of whether it's perl or not, *please* speak up). Anyway, CPAN fails to install it, and I am clueless as to why. Here's the relevant part of the output: 
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HTML-WikiConverter-0.30/README
Removing previously used \.cpan\build\HTML-WikiConverter-0.30

  CPAN.pm: Going to build D/DI/DIBERRI/HTML-WikiConverter-0.30.tar.gz

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for HTML::WikiConverter
    -- OK
Running make test
'test' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
   test -- NOT OK
Running make install
  make test had returned bad status, won't install without force

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I've tried going back in and saying "force install HTML::WikiConverter" but that just fails in the same way.
This is all on Windows XP. Help?
Bob

Edited by Chady -- code tags, minor formatting, and linked url.

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