OK monks, I've got a bit of a challenge for you. I'm stumped. My host doesn't have XML::Xpath, and I can't install new modules because I don't have permissions in the neccessary folder. So I took the files and dropped them into the same directory that the script is running in (so there's my script, and then a directory called "XML" in there). This worked fine.

However, I've recently copied the files to another account on the same host, but most likely a different server in the host's datacenter. Now it's all of the sudden having problems with the package. I get this error:

Can't locate object method "abs" via package "XML::XPath::Literal" at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/HTTP/Request.pm line 106.

I'm not sure what "abs" is or why it would be in the XML::Xpath package, or what that has to do with the HTTP::Request module. To see what would happen I installed the XML::Xpath module from the shell but in a designated directory (now /home/myusername/modules/) with "PREFIX=/dir" when I'm running "perl Makefile.PL", but that had no effect.

Any ideas?

In reply to Package Installation Issues by rjahrman

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