I have a new-to-me used Gateway Laptop. I use Ububtu on my desktop so I
installed the latest one on the laptop (6.06 Dapper) from a live CD. It
puts perl there automatically but does not install the CPAN module or
the TK module. Trying to get it to install the CPAN module I typed
install Bundle::CPAN but it cannot complete the install because it
lacks modules and creates an error when trying to prepend Zlib to the
install.
Here is the dialog for the first module it fails to install:
CPAN.pm: Going to build M/MS/MSHELOR/Digest-SHA-5.43.tar.gz
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for Digest::SHA
-- NOT OK
Running make test
Can't test without successful make
Running make install
make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
Eventually the cycles of these errors seem to come back to needing
IO::Zlib and Archive::Tar.
I have used perl for quite a while but my installations were always
pretty complete and I have not encountered this sort of problem with
other computers when trying to use CPAN (I have successfully used it on
my other Ubuntu computer and on the MAC with OS X.
Help would be appreciated
