On 9/4/07, Leroy van Logchem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'am using cpan to install HTTP::Request but it fails at message.t on > standard CentOS 5 64bit installation. I really need this module, thanks > for any help. snip
CentOS is an RPM/YUM based distro, you should be installing binary versions of the modules using yum, not using CPAN*. Try this** yum install perl-libwww-perl In general it appears as if CentOS uses the format perl-foo-bar for the package name for Foo::Bar. * that is unless you really need to. CPAN is great, but using the versions created by your distro have the following benefits: 1. the ability to cleanly install and uninstall modules 2. the ability to install a module and all of its non-Perl dependencies 3. security tracking (if a flaw is found in a given module, your distro can automatically provide a fix and notify you). 4. all of the programs/libraries are guaranteed to work well together (if the interface for a module changes, then things dependent on that interface can be upgraded at the same time). ** I cannot guarantee this is the correct package name, I use Debian based distros, but it is the base name I saw in the CentOS repository here: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
