perlquestion ybiC I'm finally stepping beyond the Perl standard distribution into the promised land of CPAN.   Or trying to, anyway - problems with make stop me dead in my tracks. Found perl -MCPAN -e shell; syntax at [Aighearach]'s good post <a href="index.pl?node_id=14036">My Favorite Module:CPAN</a>, and got through FirstTime questions with only minor confusion.   But when I try to install any module or even to upgrade CPAN, the following errors result (after LWP loads and fetches): <code> Can't exec "/usr/bin/make":No such file or directory at -e line NNNN /usr/bin/make -- NOT OK Running make test Oops, make had returned bad status. </code> Jump back to "Favorite Module CPAN" post, which suggests the following action: "If make test fails, you can probably go to $HOME/.cpan/build and make install".   A few different variations on that all gen this error: <tt>*** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.</tt>   PM search for CPAN turns up these nodes and more, but no answers. <a href="index.pl?node_id=1099">perlman:lib:CPAN</a> <a href="index.pl?node_id=1281">perlman:CPAN::FirstTime</a> <a href="index.pl?node_id=796">What's MakeMaker?</a> Can you tell I'm frazzled - even left the Monastery to search <a href="http://www.deja.com/qs.xp?QRY=No+rule+to+make+target&DBS=1&OP=dnquery.xp&maxhits=100&LNG=english&defaultOp=and&showsort=score">Deja.com</a> and struck out.   <grin> System I'm working on is * Perl 5.00404 * Debian 2.1 * not behind firewall or proxy. * <tt>/usr/bin/make</tt> v3.77 I humbly request illumination and edification from Wiser Monks Than I (TM)     cpan-impaired,     [ybiC]