Hi

I tried to install WWW::Mechanize with sudo cpan WWW::Mechanize but some tests of HTTP-Response-Encoding fail.

What am I supposed to do in this case?

Can trying to force the installation damage my system?

Or should I first dig into the test to find the cause?

here the log: 

CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.21)
Going to read '/home/anonymous/.cpan/Metadata'
  Database was generated on Sun, 18 Feb 2009 15:27:11 GMT
CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.70)
Going to read 221 yaml files from /home/anonymous/.cpan/build/
CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9719)
DONE
Restored the state of none (in 10.5746 secs)
Running install for module 'HTTP::Response::Encoding'
Running make for D/DA/DANKOGAI/HTTP-Response-Encoding-0.05.tar.gz
  Has already been unwrapped into directory /home/anonymous/.cpan/buil
+d/HTTP-Response
-Encoding-0.05-4SNEaz
  Has already been made
Running make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_h
+arness(0, 
'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
Dubious, test returned 8 (wstat 2048, 0x800)
Failed 8/13 subtests 
t/boilerplate.t ... ok
t/pod-coverage.t .. skipped: Test::Pod::Coverage 1.04 required for tes
+ting POD coverage
Failed 1/5 test programs. 8/18 subtests failed.
t/pod.t ........... ok
t/pod.t ........... ok

Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/01-file.t     (Wstat: 2048 Tests: 13 Failed: 8)
  Failed tests:  5-12
  Non-zero exit status: 8
Files=5, Tests=18,  2 wallclock secs ( 0.15 usr  0.03 sys +  0.94 cusr
+  0.13 csys =  1.25 CPU)
Result: FAIL
  DANKOGAI/HTTP-Response-Encoding-0.05.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK
//hint// to see the cpan-testers results for installing this module, t
+ry:
  reports DANKOGAI/HTTP-Response-Encoding-0.05.tar.gz
Running make install
  make test had returned bad status, won't install without force

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PLEASE HELP!!!!1 ;-)

In reply to Tests fail for HTTP-Response-Encoding by Anonymous Monk

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