Summary of my problem below:

1. Trying to write a script to log in to Yahoo and download some HTML
2. The script uses WWW::Yahoo::Login module, and I can't get it to work.
3. The error message leads me to believe I'm missing a module. I can't seem to install the missing module for reasons I do not know (regarding openssl or gcc?).
4. (I'm no Linux expert.) I'm running Fedora Core 2 and Perl v5.8.3 built for i386-linux-thread-multi.

Here are the details of my problem:

I am trying to write a script that uses the WWW::Yahoo::Login module. Actually, I installed WWW::Yahoo::Login and WWW::Mechanize from CPAN and then just tried to run the sample script from the WWW::Yahoo::Login module page on CPAN.org as follows:
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use WWW::Yahoo::Login qw( login logout );
  use WWW::Mechanize;

  my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();

  $resp = login(
      mech    =>  $mech,
      uri     =>  'http://mail.yahoo.com/',
      user    =>  'a_yahoo_user',
      pass    =>  'asecret',
  );

  if ($resp) {
    print $mech->content;
  } else {
    warn $WWW::Yahoo::Login::ERROR;
  }

  # do some things
    
  unless ( logout(mech => $mech) ) {
    warn $WWW::Yahoo::Login::ERROR;
  }
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Below is the error message I get from running the script:

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Failed to fetch https://login.yahoo.com/: Protocol scheme 'https' is not supported (Crypt::SSLeay not installed) at test_yahoo_login.pl line 18. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/WWW/Yahoo/Login.pm line 110. Failed to fetch : Can't locate object method "new" via package "LWP::Protocol::https::Socket" at test_yahoo_login.pl line 25. =================================================================

So, for starters, I figured I'd try to install the Crypt::SSLeay module from CPAN, but while trying to install Crypt::SSLeay from CPAN, I encountered this question:
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CPAN.pm: Going to build C/CH/CHAMAS/Crypt-SSLeay-0.51.tar.gz No OpenSSL installation found, usually in /usr/local/openssl Which OpenSSL build path do you want to link against? =================================================================

So I typed the following at the command prompt.... $which openssl ...and this was returned: $/usr/bin/openssl So when I entered /usr/bin as the "build path" to link against, I get:
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Why can't I install Crypt::SSLeay?
Are my problems bigger than just the fact that I can't install Crypt::SSLeay?

At this point I'm stuck. Any help would be greaty appreciated.

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