Hi,

Its not a direct answer of your question, but may help....

I too got a lot of issues while installing Net::SSH2. So I tried searching for it in Package Manager (In Ubuntu, its called Ubuntu Software Center, and in case of CentOS/SL its called Package Manager(I think) ). If using Ubuntu, you can type "Net::SSH2" and it will find it. In CentOS/Scientific Linux, you can type "ssh". Or you can also try typing "Net-SSH2" and that might bring it up in the list. In either cases, it will state that it needs to install some dependencies and take care of the installation.

Thats how I installed it. Not sure how it works on other Linux flavours, but there's got to be some Package Manager in it.