Re: Install, Again

Josh (josh.barker@inceptor.com)
Wed, 10 Jan 2001 09:18:57 +0000


Alliance Support wrote:

> Good Morning,
> 
> I am installing a program called WAPReview
> (http://www.applepiesolutions.com/?simclick). It is a WAP Cell Phone
> Emulator. The instructions say it requites libwww-perl. Also they say to
> run
> the following command to test the libwww instillation. perl -e "use
> LWP::Proxy"
> 
> I am running on Solaris 7, spark, with perl at 5.00502.  I have tried
> installing libwww both with CPAN and manually.  Upgrading Perl on this
> system is not a good option at this time.  The application says perl
> 5.00r\4
> or higher.  I get no errors but the above test still fails with:
> 
> # perl -e "use LWP::Proxy"
> Can't locate LWP/Proxy.pm in @INC (@INC contains:

LWP::Proxy isn't installed, try downloading it seperately from CPAN and 
installing it.

 > There is a directory name LWP but no Proxy.pm file,lots
 > of others. The application fails with an error that the URL cannot be
 > retrieved.

Yep, looks like it t'aint installed.

Josh