As mentioned in the "Steps attempted to resolve the problem" neither XML::LibXML or Alien::LibXML doesn't 'just install' in Linux without the libxml2 packages pre-installed. I already had a dependency on XML::LibXML in my Makefile.PL and when I CPAN pre-installed Alien::LibXML with CPAN I still couldn't get XML::LibXML to install via CPAN. I looked at your link but it seems to be instructions on how to build a Debian package. I would prefer to stick with CPAN.

Update: I am using perlbrew on an AWS Linux server for my Linux text. Any chance that might cause problems?

Update2: Alien::LibXML does 'just install' it just doesn't provide any libraries that XML::LibXML can find. It looks like the Docs I was looking for are Alien::Base::Authoring

In reply to Re^2: loading libxml2 as a prerequisite by jandrew
in thread loading libxml2 as a prerequisite by jandrew

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