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I'm trying to work out why a Perl module won't install on my server.

cpanm WWW::Mechanize 

It processes stuff for ages, and then eventually dies with:

root@admin:~# cpanm WWW::Mechanize --> Working on WWW::Mechanize Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/O/OA/OALDERS/WWW-Mechanize-1.90.tar.gz ... OK Configuring WWW-Mechanize-1.90 ... OK Building and testing WWW-Mechanize-1.90 ... FAIL ! Installing WWW::Mechanize failed. See /root/.cpanm/work/1543994046.20570/build.log for details. Retry with --force to force install it. 

The log file has stuff like this in:

t/00-report-prereqs.t .................... ok t/add_header.t ........................... ok t/aliases.t .............................. ok t/area_link.t ............................ ok t/autocheck.t ............................ ok t/bad-request.t .......................... ok t/clone.t ................................ ok t/content.t .............................. ok # Test server http://127.0.0.1:31546 as PID 20661 t/cookies.t .............................. ok t/credentials-api.t ...................... ok t/credentials.t .......................... ok t/die.t .................................. ok t/dump.t ................................. ok t/field.t ................................ ok t/find_frame.t ........................... ok t/find_image.t ........................... ok t/find_inputs.t .......................... ok t/find_link-warnings.t ................... ok t/find_link.t ............................ ok t/find_link_id.t ......................... ok t/form-parsing.t ......................... ok t/form_with_fields.t ..................... ok t/form_with_fields_passthrough_params.t .. ok t/frames.t ............................... ok # Failed test '... and it was recorded in the history' # at t/history.t line 131. # got: '3' # expected: '2' # Looks like you failed 1 test of 28. t/history.t .............................. Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100) Failed 1/28 subtests t/image-new.t ............................ ok t/image-parse.t .......................... ok t/link-base.t ............................ ok t/link-relative.t ........................ ok t/link.t ................................. ok t/local/back.t ........................... ok t/local/click.t .......................... ok t/local/click_button.t ................... ok # Running tests against http://127.0.0.1:50871/?xml=1 t/local/content.t ........................ ok t/local/encoding.t ....................... ok t/local/failure.t ........................ ok t/local/follow.t ......................... ok t/local/form.t ........................... ok t/local/get.t ............................ ok t/local/nonascii.t ....................... ok t/local/overload.t ....................... skipped: Mysteriously stopped passing, and I don't know why. t/local/page_stack.t ..................... ok t/local/post.t ........................... ok t/local/referer.t ........................ ok t/local/reload.t ......................... ok t/local/submit.t ......................... ok t/mech-dump/mech-dump.t .................. ok t/new.t .................................. ok t/regex-error.t .......................... ok t/save_content.t ......................... ok t/select.t ............................... ok t/taint.t ................................ skipped: Test::Taint required for checking taintedness t/tick.t ................................. ok t/untaint.t .............................. ok t/upload.t ............................... ok t/uri.t .................................. ok t/warn.t ................................. ok t/warnings.t ............................. ok Test Summary Report ------------------- t/history.t (Wstat: 256 Tests: 28 Failed: 1) Failed test: 23 Non-zero exit status: 1 Files=59, Tests=752, 1241 wallclock secs ( 0.29 usr 0.08 sys + 11.13 cusr 1.60 csys = 13.10 CPU) Result: FAIL Failed 1/59 test programs. 1/752 subtests failed. Makefile:946: recipe for target 'test_dynamic' failed make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255 -> FAIL Installing WWW::Mechanize failed. See /root/.cpanm/work/1543994046.20570/build.log for details. Retry with --force to force install it. 

I see this in there, but I'm unsure what it means:

# Failed test '... and it was recorded in the history' # at t/history.t line 131. # got: '3' # expected: '2' # Looks like you failed 1 test of 28. t/history.t .............................. Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100) Failed 1/28 subtests 

Any suggestions? I need this module for another module I'm trying to install :/

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  • Can you run the verbose test and add the output? Commented Dec 5, 2018 at 8:42
  • Is WWW::Mechanize version provided in Ubuntu repositories (1.75) too old? Commented Dec 5, 2018 at 9:13
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    Don't get anything from CPAN if it's already packaged for your distro and you don't absolutely need a newer version. Commented Dec 5, 2018 at 19:56
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    Not sure about Debian/Ubuntu. On Red Hat based systems you can simply query yum whatprovides 'perl(WWW::Mechanize)' and it will tell you which package to install. Commented Dec 6, 2018 at 14:50
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    Well, you can always get rid of Ubuntu :) Commented Dec 7, 2018 at 14:38

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Perl CPAN packages installed as Linux distribution packages [Debian/Ubuntu]

Install perl packages as your Linux distribution packages if possible.

It is possible for WWW::Mechanize on Ubuntu (and other Debian family distributions):

Ubuntu – Details of package libwww-mechanize-perl in xenial
Package: libwww-mechanize-perl (1.75-1)

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