in reply to Re^2: CPAN failed install
in thread CPAN failed install

This is a system package that you will need to install. This package is distributed for your operating system, and maybe packaged for your OS by your vendor.

Maybe you need to talk to your system administrator to get that package installed for you.

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Re^4: CPAN failed install
by Linicks (Scribe) on Nov 13, 2016 at 18:35 UTC

    Ummm. OK thanks. I run Slackware. So basically what you are saying is that the code I am trying to run

    http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=820982

    requires a third party perl module that might not even exist for my system? I have obviously done a lot of googling, but that reveals for the above issue is all to do with the debian/ubuntu 'apt-get' this and apt-get that etc. That's no good.

    Nick

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      Hi Linicks,

      third party perl module

      No, as the others have said it's not a Perl module, it's a system library, often written in C or C++ and compiled to a binary, which the Perl module then links against. I don't know Slackware, but the first result when googling "slackware webkit" is http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/webkitgtk/, perhaps that helps?

      Hope this helps,
      -- Hauke D

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        Thanks... once I realised it _isn't_ a Perl module, I got this 40 minutes ago and currently building it. What confused me was the perl mod WWW::WebKit...

        Nick

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