Tk module installation by cpan

vinoth.ree has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I tried to install Tk module by cpan, I got the following error message as,

Cannot find X include files via /usr/include
Cannot find X include files anywhere.
You probably need to install the X11 development package first.
On Debian Linux, these are the packages libx11-dev and x-dev.
Please see README.linux for more information.
No 'Makefile' created  SREZIC/Tk-804.029.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Make had some problems, won't test
Running make install
  Make had some problems, won't install
Failed during this command:
 SREZIC/Tk-804.029.tar.gz                     : writemakefile NO -- No 'Makefile' created

I installed the libx11-dev and x-dev debian package from lenny installation CD

I tried to reinstall the Tk module as 'install Tk', but it said error as

cpan8> install Tk
Running install for module 'Tk'
Running make for S/SR/SREZIC/Tk-804.029.tar.gz
  Has already been unwrapped into directory /root/.cpan/build/Tk-804.029-4hdpeo
  No 'Makefile' created
, won't make
Running make test
  Make had some problems, won't test
Running make install
  Make had some problems, won't install

Could you please tell me how to solve this problem?

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Re: Tk module installation by cpan by marto (Cardinal) on Aug 14, 2010 at 11:01 UTC
Looks like you're still in the same cpan session in which the Tk installation failed. Exit the cpan session, then do a `cpan Tk`. I'm sure this is also available via apt-get: `apt-get install perl-tk`, since you seem to be trying to install to the system perl. See Re: LWP::UserAgent @ Ubuntu 8.04 64-Bit for advice.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Tk module installation by cpan by vinoth.ree (Monsignor) on Aug 14, 2010 at 11:03 UTC
Thanks you!	[reply]
Re^3: Tk module installation by cpan by shan_emails (Beadle) on Jun 17, 2013 at 12:36 UTC
Hi, I have the same like issue while i install the Tk perl module. How you are rectified it, And my error is. While i executing the command in CPAN `look Tk`. I comes out of the cpan prompt. But the process is running at backend. After wards i have manually killed the process using `kill -9 process_id` Thanks, Shanmugam A.	[reply] [d/l] [select]