I am very new to working with Perl. After reading an article about it, I very much want to install WWW::Mechanize. I am working on a Mac, so I tried used the pre-installed CPAN module to add it. It was the first time I'd run CPAN, so I let it do the auto install options, which is probably at the root of my problems.

I entered install WWW::Mechanize. Basically, at the end I got this message:

Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
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I thought it might be because I didn't have some other required modules, like LWP or something. So I tried to install Bundle::LWP. I got the same errors at the end.

I probably sound like an idiot, but how can I easily install modules? What am I doing wrong?

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