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Subject: problem with libwww-perl-5.805
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:46:41 -0400
To: bug-libwww-perl [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Kristina Fontanez <fontanez [...] fas.harvard.edu>
See below for an output of the terminal window. I'm an amateur perl user and could use some help. Thank you, Kristina kristina-fontanezs-powerbook-g4-12:~ kristinafontanez$ cd Desktop kristina-fontanezs-powerbook-g4-12:~/Desktop kristinafontanez$ cd perl_packages/ kristina-fontanezs-powerbook-g4-12:~/Desktop/perl_packages kristinafontanez$ ls ax.txt genbank_parse.pl libwww-perl-5.805 done libnet-1.19 kristina-fontanezs-powerbook-g4-12:~/Desktop/perl_packages kristinafontanez$ cd libwww-perl-5.805/ kristina-fontanezs-powerbook-g4-12:~/Desktop/perl_packages/libwww- perl-5.805 kristinafontanez$ perl Makefile.PL This package comes with some sample programs that I can try to install in /usr/bin. Note that you can avoid these questions by passing the '-n' option to 'Makefile.PL'. Do you want to install lwp-request? [y] y Do you want to install lwp-mirror? [y] y Do you want to install lwp-rget? [y] y Do you want to install lwp-download? [y] y The lwp-request program will use the name it is invoked with to determine what HTTP method to use. I can set up alias for the most common HTTP methods. These alias are also installed in /usr/bin. Do you want to install the GET alias? [n] y Do you want to install the HEAD alias? [n] y Do you want to install the POST alias? [n] y Checking for URI........... ok Checking for HTML::Parser.. ok Checking for MIME::Base64.. ok Checking for Net::FTP...... ok Checking for Digest::MD5 .. ok Can't copy bin/GET at Makefile.PL line 258, <STDIN> line 7. kristina-fontanezs-powerbook-g4-12:~/Desktop/perl_packages/libwww- perl-5.805 kristinafontanez$ make make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. kristina-fontanezs-powerbook-g4-12:~/Desktop/perl_packages/libwww- perl-5.805 kristinafontanez$ perl Makefile.PL This package comes with some sample programs that I can try to install in /usr/bin. Note that you can avoid these questions by passing the '-n' option to 'Makefile.PL'. Do you want to install lwp-request? [y] y Do you want to install lwp-mirror? [y] y Do you want to install lwp-rget? [y] y Do you want to install lwp-download? [y] y The lwp-request program will use the name it is invoked with to determine what HTTP method to use. I can set up alias for the most common HTTP methods. These alias are also installed in /usr/bin. Do you want to install the GET alias? [n] n Do you want to install the HEAD alias? [n] n Do you want to install the POST alias? [n] n Checking for URI........... ok Checking for HTML::Parser.. ok Checking for MIME::Base64.. ok Checking for Net::FTP...... ok Checking for Digest::MD5 .. ok Checking if your kit is complete... Warning: the following files are missing in your kit: bin/lwp-download bin/lwp-mirror bin/lwp-request bin/lwp-rget Please inform the author. Writing Makefile for LWP kristina-fontanezs-powerbook-g4-12:~/Desktop/perl_packages/libwww- perl-5.805 kristinafontanez$ --------------------------------------------------------------- Kristina Fontanez Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Cavanaugh lab Harvard University 16 Divinity Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138 tel: 617-495-1138 email: fontanez@fas.harvard.edu
I don't belive LWP as found on CPAN would be incomplete. Please download a new copy of http://search.cpan.org/dist/libwww-perl/