Hi,

thanks for all answers - it worked :)

Running

> cd /root/.cpan/build/WWW-Mechanize-1.64-_fbjEy 
> /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site
[download]

... produced a gentler reminder that firstly I need to have SSL support ...

It looks like you don't have SSL capability (like IO::Socket::SSL) ins
+talled. 
You will not be able to process https:// URLs correctly.
[download]

To get the SSL capability I installed

> sudo apt-get install libhttp-daemon-ssl-perl
[download]

With this requirement out of the way I could then address the installation of WWW::Mechanize proper

> apt-cache search WWW::Mechanize           
> sudo apt-get install libwww-mechanize-perl
[download]

Finally,  instmodsh listed the installed Perl modules with WWW::Mechanize being one of them.

Thanks!!

Dietmar

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