Thanks for the suggestions. Using wx 2.9 seemed to be an important part of the process. Once I installed Alien::wxWidgets by hand and specified wxWidgets 2.9.4, I was able to go a lot further (and solved my initial problem).

Unfortunately, I still couldn't install Padre 1.01 from SVN (some error about a character in META.yml not mapping to Unicode), so I tried to install 1.00 from cpan and got the following error:

#   Failed test 'undef isa 'Padre::Browser::Document''
#   at t/50_browser.t line 47.
#     undef isn't defined
Can't call method "mimetype" on an undefined value at t/50_browser.t l
+ine 48.
[download]

I'm almost ready to completely blow away my ~/perl5 directory and start over from scratch (now that I have a good understanding of the steps required).

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