Was WordNet 1.7 or 1.6 installed? Did you set the WNHOME environment variable to point to your WordNet installation?
Jason -- This is an error report generated automatically by CPANPLUS. Below is the error stack during 'make test': PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/local/perl/5.6.1/bin/perl "-Iblib/lib" "-Iblib/arch" test.pl v1.6: 1..24 v1.7: 1..26 ok 1 Loading index files. This may take a while... Not able to open /usr/local/wordnet1.7/dict/noun.exc or C:\wn17\dict\noun.exc: No such file or directory at blib/lib/WordNet/QueryData.pm line 238. make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 2 Additional comments: -- Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.4.18-3, archname=i686-linux uname='linux pcalexm 2.4.18-3 #1 thu apr 18 07:37:53 edt 2002 i686 unknown ' config_args='' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-O2', cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil libc=/lib/libc-2.2.5.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic' cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'