Hell of a time installing module WWW::Mechanize

cat_baby has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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.

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Re: Hell of a time installing module WWW::Mechanize by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Apr 28, 2011 at 07:37 UTC
Your CPAN test results weren't that bad, so looking at CPAN again, it seems that you could be missing some dependencies. WWW::Mechanize has a slough of dependencies that must be installed or updated. One dependency that always bothers me is HTTP::Server::Simple. I've always had to force install it. Here's a cpan script to install and upgrade the dependencies: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use CPAN; CPAN::Shell->install( "Tree::DAG_Node", "Test::Warn", "WWW::RobotRules", "HTTP::Cookies", "Net::FTP", "Net::HTTP", "Digest::base", "Digest::MD5", "HTTP::Negotiate", "File::Listing", "LWP::UserAgent", "HTML::Form", "HTTP::Daemon", "Test", "Text::Wrap", "Pod::Escapes", "Pod::Simple", "Pod::Man", "ExtUtils::MakeMaker", "HTTP::Server::Simple", "Time::Local", "HTTP::Date", "MIME::Base64", "URI", "Encode", "Encode::Locale", "LWP::MediaTypes", "Compress::Raw::Bzip2", "Compress::Raw::Zlib", "IO::Uncompress::Inflate", "HTTP::Status", "ExtUtils::ParseXS", "Module::CoreList", "Module::Load", "Params::Check", "Module::Load::Conditional", "Locale::Maketext::Simple", "IPC::Cmd", "ExtUtils::CBuilder", "Perl::OSType", "IO::Dir", "Version::Requirements", "Exporter", "CPAN::Meta::YAML", "JSON::PP", "Parse::CPAN::Meta", "CPAN::Meta", "Scalar::Util", "File::Spec", "File::Temp", "version", "Module::Metadata", "Module::Build", "HTML::Tagset", "XSLoader", "HTML::Parser", "Sub::Uplevel", "Test::Exception", "HTML::TreeBuilder", "Test::Harness", "Test::More", "Pod::Usage", "WWW::Mechanize"); [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Hell of a time installing module WWW::Mechanize by Anonymous Monk on Jun 10, 2011 at 05:26 UTC
This script did the trick for me. Many thanks!	[reply]
Re^2: Hell of a time installing module WWW::Mechanize by Anonymous Monk on Aug 27, 2011 at 12:52 UTC
Thank you so much. I was having this same problem and installing and upgrading the dependencies did the trick. Why doesn't CPAN take care of that?	[reply]
Re^3: Hell of a time installing module WWW::Mechanize by Anonymous Monk on Aug 28, 2011 at 00:06 UTC
Thank you so much. I was having this same problem and installing and upgrading the dependencies did the trick. Why doesn't CPAN take care of that? CPAN does take care of this	[reply]
Re^2: Hell of a time installing module WWW::Mechanize by Anonymous Monk on Jun 21, 2011 at 22:39 UTC
Thanks, this resolved my problem installing Mechanized as well.	[reply]
Re: Hell of a time installing module WWW::Mechanize by Anonymous Monk on Apr 28, 2011 at 06:22 UTC
On the first one it tells you make test had returned bad status, won't install without force, so if you wish to install, use force $ perldoc cpan \|grep -i force -C2 and CPAN version. -f Force the specified action, when it normally would have failed +. Use this to install a module even if its tests fail. When you use +this option, -i is not optional for installing a module when you ne +ed to force it: % cpan -f -i Module::Foo -- cpan -i Netscape::Booksmarks Business::ISBN # force install modules ( must use -i ) cpan -fi CGI::Minimal URI -- CREDITS Japheth Cleaver added the bits to allow a forced install (-f). Jim Brandt suggest and provided the initial implementation for the [download] On the second one a similar instruction `! - run me as a root or with --sudo option \| - run me with --local-lib option !` [download] so either run it as root (administrator) or use --sudo , or run with --local-lib . You can also use this instead of --local-lib `export PERL_MB_OPT=--install_base /home/user/devstuff export PERL_MM_OPT=INSTALL_BASE=/home/user/devstuff export PERL5LIB=/home/user/devstuff/perl5 cpanp i WWW::Mechanize --force --skiptest` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]