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I'm a perl beginner using perl 5.10. i am trying to use a program which says it has a dependency on file::stat so i tried to install this and got this message

pan[5]> install File::stat
Running install for module 'File::stat'
The most recent version "1.02" of the module "File::stat"
is part of the perl-5.12.2 distribution. To install that, you need to 
+run
  force install File::stat   --or--
  install J/JE/JESSE/perl-5.12.2.tar.gz
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
Failed during this command:
 JESSE/perl-5.12.2.tar.gz                     : make NO isa perl
[download]

I don't know whether to do the force install suggested as I don't know whether there will be any problems

thanks for your help

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