Thanks. Good questions.

I've tried cpan, and some half-hearted manual attempts. I even tried installing CPANPLUS, but that didn't install either.

Systems are Linux. One is apparently red-hat, but I'm not sure how to be more specific.

On one system it complained about the system make, so I pulled down the latest GNU make and used that. I've tried it on the second system with DBM::Deep, with this (trailing) result from force install: 

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Warning: prerequisite IO::Scalar 0.01 not found.
Warning: prerequisite Pod::Usage 1.3 not found. We have 1.16.
Warning: prerequisite Test::Deep 0.095 not found.
Warning: prerequisite Test::Exception 0.21 not found.
Warning: prerequisite Test::Warn 0.08 not found.
Writing Makefile for DBM::Deep
Can't exec "/home/sgriffith/unix/bin/make": No such file or directory 
+at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 4566.
  /home/sgriffith/unix/bin/make  -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

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Here it seems that the make in the config file isn't the one used. But I think it's really complaining about dependencies, and then gets lost(?).

Is there some way to catch all of the output? I'm putty-ied in from another machine. Or should I just abandon cpan, and do this from the shell?

-QM
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In reply to Re^2: Module Install Troubles by QM
in thread Module Install Troubles by QM

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