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spiritway has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Beloved Brethren and Sistren:

I use cpan to install modules on a Linux system. Occasionally I will get a very long series of messages that scroll past my screen faster than I can read, but which identify an error. After much ado, the cpan program simply tells me, "make no good; won't install without force". At that point, I have no clue what went wrong, so of course I have no idea how to fix it. I can't redirect the output, because I'm in cpan.

Does anyone have any words of wisdom to help me with this vexing problem? If so, what are they?

Update:

Wow, thanks to everyone for the great ideas.