Thanks for your feedback. Unfortunately I don't quite follow your response.

I'm not attempting to update the system PERL or libraries, rather I was trying to generate up to date local copies of the modules that I listed within a local library using the cpanminus and the Perl local::lib module. To do this I used the following commands (per the iplayer installation guide.

curl -L "http://cpanmin.us" | perl - -l ~/perl5 App::cpanminus local::
+lib
eval `perl -I ~/perl5/lib/perl5 -Mlocal::lib`
echo 'eval `perl -I ~/perl5/lib/perl5 -Mlocal::lib`' >> ~/.bash_profil
+e
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Can you expand on how the NET::SSLeay and Openssl libraries relate to the problem with Net::HTTP?