Perl and SSL

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

This is a general perl/ssl question. I'm going to be doing some work with LWP and accessing secure ssl sites so I'm going to need IO::Socket::SSL and OpenSSL to be installed on my machine.

Here's the question. I'm going to be arranging for a test machine on which I can test out my scripts etc.. How hard is it to install Perl and OpenSSL and get it all configured. I've heard people say that its a nightmare. I'm wondering whether I should just pay a hosting service to set one up for me. Anybody know of any good tutorials and such out there? Any tips or advice?
Thanks

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Re: Perl and SSL by marius (Hermit) on Jan 20, 2001 at 01:04 UTC
A lot of it depends on what OS you're performing this on. *BSD has the ports/pkgsrc system, depending which specific BSD you're doing this on. In FreeBSD (the one I use and the only one I can speak for) it's a cinch. In Linux, I'm not sure that it would be a problem either, by way of grabbing source or your flavor of package. Other OS's I can't speak too well for. =] -marius	[reply]
Re: Re: Perl and SSL by Anonymous Monk on Jan 20, 2001 at 01:21 UTC
I'd be installing all this stuff on redhat linux.	[reply]
Re: Perl and SSL by Pug (Monk) on Jan 20, 2001 at 01:27 UTC
Installing OpenSSL on Solaris and Linux is a peace of cake Just follow the INSTALL file instructions. (just make sure you have 0.9.6) I can't answer for installing perl it is been a while since I have installed it.	[reply]