cpanm (App::cpanminus) 1.7043 on perl 5.014004 built for x86_64-linux Work directory is /home/steve/.cpanm/work/1513190088.24934 You have make /usr/bin/make You have LWP 6.29 You have /bin/tar: tar (GNU tar) 1.29 Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. You have /usr/bin/unzip Searching DBD::mysql () on cpanmetadb ... --> Working on DBD::mysql Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MI/MICHIELB/DBD-mysql-4.043.tar.gz -> OK Unpacking DBD-mysql-4.043.tar.gz Entering DBD-mysql-4.043 Checking configure dependencies from META.json Checking if you have Data::Dumper 0 ... Yes (2.130_02) Checking if you have DBI 1.609 ... Yes (1.637) Configuring DBD-mysql-4.043 Running Makefile.PL Can't exec "mysql_config": No such file or directory at Makefile.PL line 88. Cannot find the file 'mysql_config'! Your execution PATH doesn't seem not contain the path to mysql_config. Resorting to guessed values! PLEASE NOTE: For 'make test' to run properly, you must ensure that the database user 'steve' can connect to your MySQL server and has the proper privileges that these tests require such as 'drop table', 'create table', 'drop procedure', 'create procedure' as well as others. mysql> grant all privileges on test.* to 'steve'@'localhost' identified by 's3kr1t'; You can also optionally set the user to run 'make test' with: perl Makefile.PL --testuser=username Can't exec "mysql_config": No such file or directory at Makefile.PL line 561. Failed to determine directory of mysql.h. Use perl Makefile.PL --cflags=-I to set this directory. For details see DBD::mysql::INSTALL, section "C Compiler flags" or type perl Makefile.PL --help Can't find mysql_config. Use --mysql_config option to specify where mysql_config is located -> N/A -> FAIL Configure failed for DBD-mysql-4.043. See /home/steve/.cpanm/work/1513190088.24934/build.log for details.