LWP

[Jeanie M. Schwenk]

This all started because I wanted to use Bugzilla. I can't use CPAN,
because I can't get LWP installed ... I've read that CPAN won't work
if you don't have LWP installed and the "LWP not available ... LWP not
available" pretty much confirmed that.

The Bundle::LWP claims to be a "A bundle to install all libwww-perl
related modules" On the page that describes the contents of the
bundle it says that it contains

MIME::Base64
Digest::MD5
URI 1.10
Net::FTP 2.58
HTML::Tagset
HTML::Parser
HTML::HeadParser

see http://search.cpan.org/doc/GAAS/libwww-perl-5.63/lib/Bundle/LWP.pm

But I downloaded the LWP bundle and the README say that I'm need to
install these first:

URI
MIME-Base64
HTML-Parser
libnet
Digest-MD5

What? Those are supposed to be in the bundle. That's why I wanted
the bundle! I cannot find a URI anywhere that is in working
condition. The one on CPAN has 6 parts but 1 of them FAILs on ALL
platforms (assuming the documentation is correct). And I can't find a
libnet. Great. Just great.

I just want to install Bugzilla which means I need certain perl
modules. I am no closer now than I was a week ago to getting Bugzilla
installed because I cannot get the necessary perl modules installed.
Also, I'm a newbie, before last week, I'd never done any perl. I'm
sure that doesn't help matters any. I used to think I could install
anything, not anymore.

There must be an easier or at least different way to get the necessary
perl modules. Anybody have any suggestions?

Jeanie

[Wyzelli]

"Jeanie M. Schwenk" <jsch...@oregon.idt.com> wrote in message
news:74f2f0e9.02011...@posting.google.com...

I have had great success in all instances by typing:

perl -MCPAN -e 'shell'

following the prompts for configuration, and then

install Bundle::LWP

That process should be able to use some of your native *nix tools to get and
make the bits needed.

If by some chance you are on Win32, then just go to www.activestate.com and
download the latest binary installation, it has LWP included.

Wyzelli
--
($a,$b,$w,$t)=(' bottle',' of beer',' on the wall','Take one down, pass it
around');
for(reverse(1..100)){$s=($_!=1)?'s':'';$c.="$_$a$s$b$w\n$_$a$s$b\n$t\n";
$_--;$s=($_!=1)?'s':'';$c.="$_$a$s$b$w\n\n";}print"$c*hic*";

[Helgi Briem]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 10:46:38 +0930, "Wyzelli"
<wyz...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>If by some chance you are on Win32, then just go to
> www.activestate.com and download the latest binary
> installation, it has LWP included.

They also have binary installations for Solaris and Linux.

--
Regards, Helgi Briem
helgi AT decode DOT is

[Jeanie M. Schwenk]

I'm on HP-UX 11.0 and 10.2. Doing the calls seperately (perl -MCPAN
-e 'shell' followed by cpan> install Bundle::LWP) does not yeild any
different results. Here's the actual error:
=============================================================
cpan> install Bundle::LWP
LWP not available
LWP not available
LWP not available
Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file
(http://www.cpan.org/, http://www.perl.com/CPAN/,
http://cpan.digisle.net/)
are valid. The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o conf urllist push
ftp://myurl/'

Could not fetch authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
LWP not available
LWP not available
LWP not available
Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file
(http://www.cpan.org/, http://www.perl.com/CPAN/,
http://cpan.digisle.net/)
are valid. The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o conf urllist push
ftp://myurl/'

Could not fetch modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
LWP not available
LWP not available
LWP not available
Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file
(http://www.cpan.org/, http://www.perl.com/CPAN/,
http://cpan.digisle.net/)
are valid. The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o conf urllist push
ftp://myurl/'

Could not fetch modules/03modlist.data.gz
Warning: Cannot install Bundle::LWP, don't know what it is.
Try the command

i /Bundle::LWP/

to find objects with matching identifiers.
=============================================================

cpan>

[Bart Lateur]

Jeanie M. Schwenk wrote:

>I'm on HP-UX 11.0 and 10.2. Doing the calls seperately (perl -MCPAN
>-e 'shell' followed by cpan> install Bundle::LWP) does not yeild any
>different results.

Then download the .tar.gz archive from
<http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=libwww-perl>, untargzip it, and do
a manual install as per the readme. You *can* get such a file onto that
computer, can't you?

You likely will have to get the required other modules as well, in the
same manner.

--
Bart.