What do you mean by "searched CPAN and quickly got the module"? If you're going to the CPAN website, pulling down a tarball, and then trying to install it, you're not being optimally lazy, as you are painfully finding out. What you really ought to do is use the CPAN perl module. From the commnand line, try typing 

perl -MCPAN -e 'install XML::DOM'

[download]

If you haven't done this before, it will prompt you for a bunch of configuration options, one of which is "follow dependencies". You should probably leave it as the default, namely "ask". Then every time you hit a module dependency failure you will be prompted as to whether you want to follow it. If you hit 'y', then it will download and install it, as well as follow its dependencies as well. This is worlds easier than repeatedly experiencing failures and trudging back to cpan.org to download more tarballs manually.

In reply to Re: perl distribution for hp-ux by skyknight
in thread perl distribution for hp-ux by Anonymous Monk

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