Hello, I am trying to write to the parallel port pins from a Perl program running Ubuntu Linux, to light up led's on a bread board. I've already accomplished this on this same box using a C program, but I cannot get my code below to work. I believe the problem is with the line:
$parport = Device::ParallelPort->new('auto:0');

I've tried different variables between the ('') ticks, but nothing has worked. I use Perl on my web pages for forms, but this has me stumped. Any help would be appreciated. Code is below:

#!/usr/bin/perl

require "subparseform.lib";
&Parse_Form;

print "Set-cookie: cart_id=1234; user_id=123;\n";   
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

use strict;
use CGI;
 
 use Device::ParallelPort; 
# use Device::ParallelPort::drv;
# use Device::ParallelPort::drv::linux
# use Device::ParallelPort::drv::parport

# Set up your parallel port object and tell it what driver to use.
 #my $parport = Device::ParallelPort->new('auto:0');

print "It works!!!";

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