Hello List, If any one could shed some light on what I'm missing/what the errors mean I'd sure appreciate it! I'm trying to install the Net::SMTP::Multipart Module http://search.cpan.org/author/DROBERTS/Net-SMTP-Multipart-1.5/Multipart.pm I've installed several modules today but I can't seem to get past this one. It doen't generate the makefile so I can't go past perl Makefile.PM doing perl -MCPAN version fails also. I am doing this as root I've done perl -e 'use Module::Name;' on ever required module listed inthe url above and all is well. Here is what happens when I do perl Makefile.PL :: # perl Makefile.PL Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good 'HTMLLIBPODS' is not a known MakeMaker parameter name. Could not eval ' package ExtUtils::MakeMaker::_version; no strict; local $VERSION; $VERSION=undef; do { our $VERSION = sprintf("%d.%d", q$Revision: 1.4 $ =~ /(\d+)\.(\d+)/); }; $VERSION ' in Multipart.pm: Can't modify subroutine entry in scalar assignment at (eval 15) line 7, at EOF # ls Changes MANIFEST Makefile.PL Multipart.pm # make make: no target to make.