After crying uncle on installing prerequisites I learned of cpan! However, it fails "make test". I'd appreciate any advice. I also tried "cpan -i CPAN" and that failed please see bottom. Thanks, John

perl -v:  This is perl, v5.8.8 built for aix"
perl Makefile.PL:
Generating a Unix-style Makefile
Writing Makefile for CPAN
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json

make test: 
------------snip----------
#   Failed test 'cmd[force test CPAN::Test::Dummy::Perl5::Make]'
#   in t/31sessions.t at line 503.
#                   'Running test for module 'CPAN::Test::Dummy::Perl5
+::Make'
---------------snip--------------
#   Failed test 'cmd[test CPAN::Test::Dummy::Perl5::Make]'
#   in t/31sessions.t at line 503.
#                   'Could not read metadata file. Falling back to oth
+er methods to determine prerequisites

-------------snip------------------

t/31sessions.............79/82 # Looks like you failed 3 tests of 82.
t/31sessions............. Dubious, test returned 3 (wstat 768, 0x300)
 Failed 3/82 subtests
------------snip-----------------
Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/31sessions.t       (Wstat: 768 Tests: 82 Failed: 3)
  Failed tests:  3, 7-8
  Non-zero exit status: 3
Files=21, Tests=436, 71 wallclock secs ( 0.25 usr  0.04 sys + 47.67 cu
+sr  7.11 csys = 55.07 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 1/21 test programs. 3/436 subtests failed.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
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THen I tried "cpan -i CPAN", and got this error:

CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /tmp/sirsi/.cpan/Metadata
  Database was generated on Wed, 09 Apr 2014 05:53:02 GMT
Running install for module CPAN
Running make for A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-2.00.tar.gz
CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok
Checksum for /tmp/sirsi/.cpan/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-2.00.t
+ar.gz ok
Scanning cache /tmp/sirsi/.cpan/build for sizes
CPAN: Archive::Tar loaded ok
Compression not available - Install IO::Zlib! at /usr/local/sirsi/lib/
+perl5/5.8.8/CPAN.pm line 5838
No data could be read from file at /usr/local/sirsi/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CP
+AN.pm line 5838
Can't call method "list_files" on an undefined value at /usr/local/sir
+si/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CPAN.pm line 5858
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