Hi Monks. I don't know if anyone can help me with this, but I'll ask anyhow.

I'm doing this on the commandline:


$ PERL5LIB=~/build/perl-testing-libs/lib/perl5 cpanm --self-contained \
--exclude-vendor -L ~/build/perl-testing-libs --wget --skip-satisfied \
--interactive --verbose YAML::LibYAML

The resulting message is


! Installing the dependencies failed: Module 'Test::More' is not installed
! Bailing out the installation for File-Temp-0.2312.
! Installing the dependencies failed: Module 'File::Temp' is not installed

When I try to build the two required modules alone, I can't get a succcessful installation. What's going on?

EDIT

Sorry,I was tired and in a hurry and didn't give much contextual info. My System and my Perl are:
OS: CYGWIN_NT-10.0-26200; cpu type: x86_64; |12| cores, cpus present: |1|
Perl version v5.40.3, CygPerl.

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Apr 28, 2026 at 21:46 UTC

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In reply to Installation of 2 module prerequisites failing - using cpanm by Intrepid

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