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I'm wondering if there isn't anything significant in the large swaths of text you didn't post. Did any of the testing indicate that perhaps there's a dependent module that wasn't installed first?

If you use CPAN to install your modules, it picks up on dependencies automatically, and by default will go ahead and install them for you first.

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Re: Re: Problems with HTML:Parser installation
by Dogg (Scribe) on Nov 23, 2000 at 02:08 UTC
    The readme for Parser only mentions that perl version 5.004 is required. It doesn't mention any dependencies.

    All the error lines in the testing read like variations on: 
    Ambiguous use of int => resolved to "int" => at blib/lib/HTML/Entities
+.pm line 315.

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    (just litsting different words (ne,le,ge,sub) in the int postion). The file blib/lib/HTML/Entities.pm was made automatically from the tar file, so I assume it's correct.

    Regarding CPAN, from what I've heard, it's a nice way to take care of this stuff, but I've had problems with the CPAN module all along.

    For example install HTML:Parser returns: 
    Ambiguous use of and => resolved to "and" => at /usr/local/lib/perl5/s
+ite_perl/HTML/Entities.pm line 311, <FIN> chunk 1.
Ambiguous use of or => resolved to "or" => at /usr/local/lib/perl5/sit
+e_perl/HTML/Entities.pm line 312, <FIN> chunk 1.
Ambiguous use of int => resolved to "int" => at /usr/local/lib/perl5/s
+ite_perl/HTML/Entities.pm line 315, <FIN> chunk 1.
Ambiguous use of ne => resolved to "ne" => at /usr/local/lib/perl5/sit
+e_perl/HTML/Entities.pm line 320, <FIN> chunk 1.
Ambiguous use of le => resolved to "le" => at /usr/local/lib/perl5/sit
+e_perl/HTML/Entities.pm line 322, <FIN> chunk 1.
Ambiguous use of ge => resolved to "ge" => at /usr/local/lib/perl5/sit
+e_perl/HTML/Entities.pm line 323, <FIN> chunk 1.
Ambiguous use of sub => resolved to "sub" => at /usr/local/lib/perl5/s
+ite_perl/HTML/Entities.pm line 324, <FIN> chunk 1.
CPAN: LWP loaded ok
Fetching with LWP:
  www.cpan.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file (www.cpan
+.org)
are valid. The urllist can be edited. E.g. with ``o conf urllist push
ftp://myurl/''

Cannot fetch authors/01mailrc.txt.gz

Fetching with LWP:
  www.cpan.org/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file (www.cpan
+.org)
are valid. The urllist can be edited. E.g. with ``o conf urllist push
ftp://myurl/''

Cannot fetch modules/02packages.details.txt.gz

Fetching with LWP:
  www.cpan.org/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file (www.cpan
+.org)
are valid. The urllist can be edited. E.g. with ``o conf urllist push
ftp://myurl/''

Cannot fetch modules/03modlist.data.gz

Warning: Cannot install HTML:Parser, don't know what it is.
Try the command

    i /HTML:Parser/

to find objects with similar identifiers.

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    I've never been able to get the search to work either, even though it seems that I have the correct URL set up. So I usually do everything by hand.
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      The package separator is actually double colons. Try install HTML::Parser instead. :)
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