Net::Libnet Module Installation

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

I am a newbie in Perl, and i wanted to use Net::Packet module from CPAN, i downloaded it from CPAN and found there are some prerequisite module for this. So i have download and installed all of them at my RHEL 4 machine except Net-Libnet-0.01_04, i am getting this error while installing this module

[root@innovation Net-Libnet-0.01_04]# perl Makefile.PL
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lnet
Writing Makefile for Net::Libnet
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can somebody please help...

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Re: Net::Libnet Module Installation by almut (Canon) on Jul 28, 2010 at 19:58 UTC
See libnet, which Net::Libnet is a binding to.	[reply]
Re^2: Net::Libnet Module Installation by sagarkha (Acolyte) on Jul 28, 2010 at 22:59 UTC
Thanks a ton, it worked.	[reply]
Re: Net::Libnet Module Installation by morgon (Priest) on Jul 28, 2010 at 19:47 UTC
You may be missing a C-library on your system. And installing modules by hand can be a lot of tedious work. Try the CPAN-shell for that: `perl -MCPAN -e shell and then at the prompt: cpan[1]> install Net::Packet` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Net::Libnet Module Installation by sagarkha (Acolyte) on Jul 28, 2010 at 23:04 UTC
Morgon, my machine is behind a proxy so it is not fetching Modules from CPAN.org, can you tell how to configure cpan to go through a proxy, its for my future use. I belive i need to configure the following details Proxy IP & Port, Domain name, username and password.	[reply]
Re^3: Net::Libnet Module Installation by morgon (Priest) on Jul 28, 2010 at 23:26 UTC
You can check the documentation of the CPAN-module with "perldoc CPAN". It uses some configuration variables that you can set (at the shell-prompt) with "o conf <variable> <value>". After you've made changes you need to commit them with "o conf commit". To use a proxy (I think) you need to set the variables "http_proxy" (maybe also "ftp_proxy") and possibly (if you have to authenticate at the proxy) "proxy_user" and "poxy_pass". So try (at the prompt you get with "perl -MCPAN -e shell" `o conf http_proxy <your proxy> o conf http_user <your proxy-user> o conf http_pass <your proxy-password> o conf commit` [download] and it should work.	[reply] [d/l]