Hi, Hoping somebody can help me please, because I'm not very familiar with installing via CPAN. My machine is running Fedora 15 (64-bit), and I'm trying to install Net:SSH2 via CPAN, but I am running into problems (as shown by the output below). I resolved one previous issue, with it being unable to locate the C compiler, but I do not know how to progress further, from where I am now. It seems to start failing at the "Can't link/include 'libssh2.h', 'ssh2'" line. Perl version is v5.12.4.(64-bit). 

cpan[1]> install Net::SSH2
Going to read '/root/.cpan/Metadata'
  Database was generated on Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:27:45 GMT
Running install for module 'Net::SSH2'
Running make for R/RK/RKITOVER/Net-SSH2-0.39.tar.gz
Checksum for /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/R/RK/RKITOVER/Net-SSH2-0.3
+9.tar.gz ok
Scanning cache /root/.cpan/build for sizes
......................................................................
+......DONE

  CPAN.pm: Going to build R/RK/RKITOVER/Net-SSH2-0.39.tar.gz

Subroutine checklibs redefined at inc/Module/Install/CheckLib.pm line 
+11.
Subroutine assertlibs redefined at inc/Module/Install/CheckLib.pm line
+ 25.
Subroutine _author_side redefined at inc/Module/Install/CheckLib.pm li
+ne 39.

The libssh2 library is required by this module.  If you don't have it,
+ you can
download it from http://www.libssh2.org; you may also need OpenSSL, wh
+ich can be
obtained from http://www.openssl.org.

Debian:   sudo aptitude install libssh2-1-dev
OpenSUSE: sudo zypper in libssh2-1 libssh2-devel

You can pass your libssh2 lib and include dirs on the command line. E.
+g.:

    perl Makefile.PL lib=$HOME/libssh2/lib inc=$HOME/libssh2/include

Can't link/include 'libssh2.h', 'ssh2'
No 'Makefile' created  RKITOVER/Net-SSH2-0.39.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Make had some problems, won't test
Running make install
  Make had some problems, won't install
Failed during this command:
 RKITOVER/Net-SSH2-0.39.tar.gz   : writemakefile NO -- No 'Makefile' c
+reated

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With regards to libssh2, then I have already checked to make sure it is installed, per below:

yum install libssh2
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Package libssh2-1.2.7-1.fc15.x86_64 already installed and latest versi
+on
Nothing to do

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In reply to Need Help Installing Net::SSH2 by DanielSpaniel

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