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in thread CPAN failed install

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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Re^6: CPAN failed install
by Linicks (Scribe) on Nov 13, 2016 at 19:09 UTC

    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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      Hi Linicks,

      I hate to seem like I'm piling on top of the obvious troll in the other reply, but I would like to say that it would have been good if you had updated your node to reflect that you'd solved the issue, to prevent people from unnecessarily expending their time. In any case, I'm glad you figured it out - perhaps you could post the solution, i.e. which package exactly you had to install?

      Regards,
      -- Hauke D

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        The first reply states which package is required, as does the message generated by cpan which they posted. Unsurprisingly this is also detailed in the module documentation. Regardless of which tool you're using, if you don't known what you're doing or how to use it, the first port of call should always be the documentation.

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      Why don't you read what people have already told you? You got told this wasn't a perl module by 3 people before this!
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