LWP - InstallationError. Gurus Please Help me :)

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi my name is Leah-Anne, can anyone advise on this error message. PLEASE. I tried to install LWP and got the following error during "make test":

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base/message........Can't use string ("URI::URL") as an ARRAY ref 
while
"strict
refs" in use at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/URI/WithBase.pm line 
41.
dubious
        Test returned status 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
Undefined subroutine &Test::Harness::WCOREDUMP called at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/
Test/Harness.pm line 288.
make: *** [test] Error 2
[admin libwww-perl-5.53]$
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I would appreciate any help. Please try to keep any explanations simple. I am a beginner,

Thanks in advance,

Leah-Anne Thompson (Miss)
I can be contacted direct at lovleah@hotmail.com

2002-02-12 Edit by Corion : Added formatting and CODE tags.

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Re: LWP - InstallationError. Gurus Please Help me :) by dash2 (Hermit) on Feb 12, 2002 at 12:26 UTC
The simplest way to use CPAN, if you already have the `CPAN` module installed, is from the command line: `> perl -MCPAN -e shell` [download] And from the CPAN command line: `install LWP::UserAgent` [download] It will automatically detect any other updates you need and get them for you. dave hj~	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: LWP - InstallationError. Gurus Please Help me :) by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Feb 12, 2002 at 12:05 UTC
the libwww-perl-5.53 is quite an old one I would download the latest one from CPAN and try that in the first instance. I have just installed and tested this and it works for me /J\	[reply]