I've been unable to install Perl modules I need using cpan.  Usually cpan is flawless, but with SUSE I am having troubles:



cpan> install HTML::Parser
Caught SIGINT
Running install for module HTML::Parser
Running make for G/GA/GAAS/HTML-Parser-3.46.tar.gz

Trying with "/usr/bin/lynx -source" to get
    ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/HTML-Parser-3.46.tar.gz
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/CPAN.pm line 4467.
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/CPAN.pm line 4470.

  CPAN.pm: Going to build G/GA/GAAS/HTML-Parser-3.46.tar.gz

Use of uninitialized value in chdir at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/CPAN.pm line 4487.
Use of chdir('') or chdir(undef) as chdir() is deprecated at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/CPAN.pm line 4487.
Can't open perl script "Makefile.PL": No such file or directory
Panic: no build_dir? at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/CPAN.pm line 4666.


cpan> install XMLRPC::Lite
Running install for module XMLRPC::Lite
Running make for B/BY/BYRNE/SOAP/SOAP-Lite-0.60a.tar.gz
...
 Failed Test    Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
t/02-payload.t    2   512   125   24  19.20%  114-125
1 test and 11 subtests skipped.
Failed 1/8 test scripts, 87.50% okay. 12/293 subtests failed, 95.90% okay.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
  /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK
Running make install
  make test had returned bad status, won't install without force