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Make sure that the user you're running your web as server has permission to read the files and directories where HTML::Parser lives.

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Re: Re: Module Installation Troubles
by shambright (Beadle) on Oct 10, 2001 at 22:58 UTC
    AH!!! the auto directory looked like this:
    drwxr-xr-x  12 root     root         512 Oct  9 18:05 .
drwxr-xr-x  12 root     root         512 Oct  9 18:03 ..
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         512 Oct  4 11:15 DBD
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         512 Sep  1 11:41 DBI
drwx------   3 root     root         512 Oct  4 10:43 Data
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         512 Oct  9 17:46 Digest
drwx------   4 root     root         512 Oct  9 18:03 HTML
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         512 Oct  9 17:42 MIME
drwx------   2 root     root         512 Oct  4 11:15 Msql-Mysql-modul
+es
drwxr-xr-x   4 root     root         512 Oct  9 18:10 Net
drwx------   2 root     root         512 Oct  9 17:49 URI
drwx------   2 root     root         512 Oct  9 18:05 libwww-perl

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    It is probably not worth asking why the make installer would cause that, is it?

    Thanks.

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