CPAN isn't working!

slinky773 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I was trying to install the Carp module from CPAN in terminal, and, well, it wasn't pretty.

cpan[6]> install Carp                                                 
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Running install for module 'Carp'
The most recent version "1.21" of the module "Carp"
is part of the perl-5.15.2 distribution. To install that, you need to 
+run
  force install Carp   --or--
  install R/RJ/RJBS/perl-5.15.2.tar.bz2
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
Failed during this command:
 RJBS/perl-5.15.2.tar.bz2                     : make NO isa perl

cpan[7]>
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That's a big problem... Can anyone help me out with this?

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Re: CPAN isn't working! by toolic (Bishop) on Aug 31, 2011 at 01:46 UTC
Carp is a Core module. If you have perl installed (properly), you should already have Carp installed: `perldoc Carp` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: CPAN isn't working! by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Aug 31, 2011 at 12:35 UTC
`The most recent version "1.21" of the module "Carp" is part of the perl-5.15.2 distribution.` [download] When you issued the `cpan` command `module Carp` prior to attempting to install the Carp module, what was the response? What would be the response if you issued that command now?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: CPAN isn't working! by pvaldes (Chaplain) on Aug 31, 2011 at 09:20 UTC
`perl -v?`	[reply] [d/l]