Hello, wise Perl friends.

I have spent the better part of the night attempting to install WWW::Mechanize, researching issues, and repeatedly repairing permissions via my OS X Disk Utility to no avail. The key word 'permissions' keeps reappearing although I've tried typing "sudo" before everything and entering my password and that doesn't help. I hope the problem is with the module and not my configuration of Perl, but just in case, here's what it's telling me: 

Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/local/click_button.t (Wstat: 0 Tests: 19 Failed: 0)
  TODO passed:   15-17, 19
t/local/nonascii.t     (Wstat: 65280 Tests: 4 Failed: 0)
  Non-zero exit status: 255
  Parse errors: Bad plan.  You planned 5 tests but ran 4.
Files=54, Tests=578, 19 wallclock secs ( 0.34 usr  0.17 sys +  9.18 cu
+sr  1.39 csys = 11.08 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 1/54 test programs. 0/578 subtests failed.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
  JESSE/WWW-Mechanize-1.68.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK
//hint// to see the cpan-testers results for installing this module, t
+ry:
  reports JESSE/WWW-Mechanize-1.68.tar.gz
Running make install
  make test had returned bad status, won't install without force
Failed during this command:
 JESSE/WWW-Mechanize-1.68.tar.gz              : make_test NO

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As I said, I've tried repairing permissions, tried updating CPAN, I even installed cpanm and tried cpanm WWW::Mechanize. I got a different failure under that: 

!
! Can't write to /Library/Perl/5.10.0 and /usr/local/bin: Installing m
+odules to /Users/Jared/perl5
! To turn off this warning, you have to do one of the following:
!   - run me as a root or with --sudo option (to install to /Library/P
+erl/5.10.0 and /usr/local/bin)
|   - run me with --local-lib option e.g. cpanm --local-lib=~/perl5
!   - Set PERL_CPANM_OPT="--local-lib=~/perl5" environment variable (i
+n your shell rc file)
!   - Configure local::lib in your shell to set PERL_MM_OPT etc.
!
--> Working on WWW::Mechanize
Fetching http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/J/JE/JESSE/WWW-Mechani
+ze-1.68.tar.gz ... OK
Configuring WWW-Mechanize-1.68 ... OK
Building and testing WWW-Mechanize-1.68 ... FAIL
! Installing WWW::Mechanize failed. See /Users/Jared/.cpanm/build.log 
+for details.

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Monks, I am truly at my wits end with this and hoping I did not permanently disfigure some 'behind the scenes' aspects of my operating system in which I am woefully ill-versed. Thank you for your help.

In reply to Hell of a time installing module WWW::Mechanize by cat_baby

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