Thanks for your answers. What I did was to go through all dependencies (bottom up) to discover which of the dependencies is causing the problem. For example, for a dependency of Test::Class I get:
cpan5> install Devel::Symdump
Running install for module 'Devel::Symdump'
Running make for A/AN/ANDK/Devel-Symdump-2.08.tar.gz
Prepending blib/arch and blib/lib of 20 build dirs to PERL5LIB; for 'get'
Has already been unwrapped into directory /home/sagiv/.cpan/build/Devel-Symdump-2.08-HnrO85
Prepending blib/arch and blib/lib of 20 build dirs to PERL5LIB; for 'make'
Has already been made
Prepending blib/arch and blib/lib of 20 build dirs to PERL5LIB; for 'test'
Running make test
Has already been tested successfully
Running make install
Already tried without success

How can I figure out what the problem is? I went through the list of reported problems but I don't think it's connected to mine. Thanks!

In reply to Re^2: Install Math::GSL in Ubuntu by umeboshi
in thread Install Math::GSL in Ubuntu by umeboshi

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