I'm having the same problem. (Also on Ubuntu 9.04 with Apache2 & mod_perl2)

I've installed all these: 

libapache2-mod-perl2
libapache2-mod-perl2-dev
apache2-prefork-dev
libapreq2-dev
libapreq2
libapache2-request-perl

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But I'm still seeing this:

CPAN: File::Temp loaded ok (v0.18)

  CPAN.pm: Going to build J/JO/JOESUF/libapreq2-2.12.tar.gz

perl: 5.10.0 ok
mod_perl2: 2.000004 ok
Apache::Test: 1.31 ok
ExtUtils::MakeMaker: 6.42 ok
ExtUtils::XSBuilder: 0.28 ok
Test::More: 0.88 ok
./configure --enable-perl-glue --with-perl-opts="INSTALLDIRS=site" --w
+ith-apache2-apxs="/usr/bin/apxs2" --with-perl="/usr/bin/perl"
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no

[snip]

checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles..
+. no
Can't open perl script "INSTALLDIRS=site": No such file or directory
configure: error: Bad apache2 binary (/usr/sbin/apache2)
Warning: No success on command[/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=s
+ite]
  JOESUF/libapreq2-2.12.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Make had some problems, won't test
Running make install
  Make had some problems, won't install

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Any pointers would be gratefully received, this is driving me nuts.

In reply to Re: CPAN: Install of Apache2::Request failed by aidan
in thread CPAN: Install of Apache2::Request failed by nesto

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