How are you installing the module? Are you using the CPAN auto install program? Are you compiling the package using perl Makefile.pl ; make ; make test ; make install? Some RPM?

If it's failing at a specific point, what was the last few lines spit out at you by the console? What was the last thing that you typed?

elbieelbieelbie

Good timing on my part I suspect, but I just did this very thing last night. Unfortunately I wasn't paying full attention but I seem to have got it up and running. I used the CPAN shell, following all module dependencies. I'd also upgraded Bundle::CPAN just beforehand, though I don't know if that made a difference. There was a bit of a problem with the URI module - failed one of its heuristic tests (#6, for your reference). I just force-installed it (terribly irresponsible, I know. It will probably come back to bite me :-P). After that LWP breezed through. If this doesn't work for you, you may be missing some system libraries. Did you do a custom install of Slackware?. You could try building the modules by hand and make a note of anything it claims is missing.

Hope this is of some help. Perserverence is the key to Slackware :-)

That's what I did with Slack 7.1 and the pre-8 distros, and it ended up the same. Looks like CPAN/LWP doesn't know that Slack added back the DBI interface libs, and it's killing on it. Thankfully, I'm not alone.

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mexnix.perlmonk.org

Greetings fellow monk ,

I was about to make the same answer as the one already done
to you when i thought that leaving your counter at 0 answer
would be better . It could lead somebody to look at your 
problem ang give you a better reply than just the questions 
i was about to ask ...

But it looks like you're really not specific enough . Tell 
us more , particularly about the installing method and the
error message you get .

One last thing , and it is not a troll , if you use a 
slackware up to version 8 , why not trying an other 
distribution that would be less exotic , as now slackware
 is . 
Mandrake , to mention only this one that i know , installs
LWP by default . And even if RPM suck ( oops bad word ) 
sometimes , it's generally easy .
( Old slackware is great , a basic system on two floppies 
and a complete system with twelve , tha's great . But the 
latest versions ... i'm wondering ... ) .

The little one.
[download]

To answer your trollish question:

I've tried RedHat, Mandrake, and Suse. Redhat gets into your face about five times before letting you do what you want to do. Both are sysadmin UNFRIENDLY, and are geared to the Windows user. Mandrake is baised off of Redhat, which I don't have any hopes for because of that fact. Suse isn't half bad, the installer and setup utility is half intelegent.

Debian I haven't tried, but if it's any more complicated than Suse and into Redhat, then I wouldn't leave any hope with it.

I "grew up" with Slack. I like Slack's simplicity. I like how Slack gets out of my way and lets me whack on PPP or Apache or MySQL or PHP or whatever I need to install. It doesn't have a silly-ass package manager that gets in the way. It doesn't have fifty thousand patches to make it secure. Even with the 2 Gig of software it can install, it lets you install whatever you want, and rebuild what you need. Because of that, I'm not frustrated with Slack to the point of taking the nice Wooden Mallet I reserve for spammers and smacking the computer with it.

Slack gives me slack.

Want a copy of Slack? I'll burn you one for $7.50 and mail it off to you at no extra charge.

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