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

Dear Monks,

I do not know why I am getting ... 
Can't locate object method "get" via package "LWP::UserAgent" (perhaps
+ you forgot to load "LWP::UserAgent"?) at ./download.pl line 8.

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... error messages. My script (with exception) of the shebag is taken directly from the Synopsis section of LWP::UserAgent on CPAN (see below): 
#!/usr/local/iXSD/perl/bin/perl
require LWP::UserAgent;
 
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->timeout(10);
$ua->env_proxy;
 
my $response = $ua->get('http://search.cpan.org/');
 
if ($response->is_success) {
        print $response->content;  # or whatever
} else {
        die $response->status_line;
}

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Do I need to something funky with my @INC? Or is my Perl version too old ... 
$ perl -version

This is perl, v5.6.1 built for i686-linux
...

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Thanks!

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Re: Can't locate object method "get" via package "LWP::UserAgent"
by almut (Canon) on Oct 17, 2007 at 00:41 UTC

    Maybe your version of LWP is too old. From its "Changes" file: 

    2001-05-05   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

    Release 5.53_94

    (...)
       - new convenience methods: get/head/post/put

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    What does perl -MLWP -le "print LWP->Version" say?

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      generally its VERSION :)
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        Yes, generally... but in this case the author also supplied a "Version" routine — for those of us who don't like typing all-caps words :)

        (But you're right, for more elaborate usages such as $obj->VERSION($minRequiredVersion) you'd want UNIVERSAL's VERSION.)

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      Well looks like that is it ... 
      $ perl -MLWP -le "print LWP->Version"
5.53

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      ... thanks!
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Re: Can't locate object method "get" via package "LWP::UserAgent"
by Gangabass (Vicar) on Oct 17, 2007 at 00:41 UTC

    Hm... Very strange.

    Try to reinstall LWP via CPAN maybe this helps.

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