gurudutt.rv has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, I was trying to use WWW::Mechanize::Firefox (version WWW-Mechanize-Firefox-0.66), i have installed MozRepl-RemoteObject-0.32. Trying to run this small piece of code on Ubuntu 10.04.4 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
    use WWW::Mechanize::Firefox;

    my $mech = WWW::Mechanize::Firefox->new(
        activate => 1, # bring the tab to the foreground
    );
  $mech->get('http://google.com');

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I get the following error. 
Can't locate object method "new" via package "MozRepl" at /usr/local/s
+hare/perl/5.10.1/MozRepl/RemoteObject.pm line 434.

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Can someone suggest a workaround?

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Re: MozRepl Error
by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 23, 2012 at 07:40 UTC
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Re: MozRepl Error
by aitap (Curate) on Jul 23, 2012 at 07:39 UTC

    Please, use <code>...</code> tags to show your code. How did you install WWW::Mechanize::Firefox? How did you install MozRepl::RemoteObject?

    Do you have all of these dependencies installed? 

    $ cpanm --showdeps WWW::Mechanize::Firefox
--> Working on WWW::Mechanize::Firefox
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/C/CO/CORION/WWW-Mechanize-Fire
+fox-0.66.tar.gz ... OK
Configuring WWW-Mechanize-Firefox-0.66 ... OK
Scalar::Util~1.14
WWW::Mechanize::Link
HTTP::Daemon
Task::Weaken
Shell::Command
Object::Import
LWP::Simple
parent
URI
ExtUtils::MakeMaker
WWW::Mechanize
HTTP::Cookies
URI::data
HTTP::Date
MozRepl::RemoteObject~0.31
perl~5.006
MIME::Base64
HTTP::Response
HTML::Selector::XPath
File::Basename
Cwd

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    Sorry if my advice was wrong.
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Re: MozRepl Error
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 23, 2012 at 07:53 UTC
    Please install "MozRepl" addons in firefox. And then under firefox's Tools tab, you'll find an option called MoxRepl. Start that MozRepl and run your script. Also, make sure that WWW::Mechnize::Firefox is installed properly.
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      cpan[3]> install WWW::Mechanize::Firefox
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.20)
Going to read '/home/gurudutt/.cpan/Metadata'
  Database was generated on Mon, 02 Jul 2012 03:58:03 GMT
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v5.834)
CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9719)
Warning: no success downloading '/home/gurudutt/.cpan/sources/authors/
+01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp9571'. Giving up on it. at /usr/share/perl/5.10/CP
+AN/Index.pm line 225.
Fetching with LWP:
  http://www.perl.org/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.71)
Going to read '/home/gurudutt/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz'
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.02)
......................................................................
+......DONE
Fetching with LWP:
  http://www.perl.org/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Going to read '/home/gurudutt/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details
+.txt.gz'
^R
  Database was generated on Wed, 25 Jul 2012 06:14:33 GMT
..............
  New CPAN.pm version (v1.9800) available.
  [Currently running version is v1.9402]
  You might want to try
    install CPAN
    reload cpan
  to both upgrade CPAN.pm and run the new version without leaving
  the current session.


..............................................................DONE
Fetching with LWP:
  http://www.perl.org/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Going to read '/home/gurudutt/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz'
......................................................................
+......DONE
Going to write /home/gurudutt/.cpan/Metadata
WWW::Mechanize::Firefox is up to date (0.66).

cpan[4]> install MozRepl::RemoteObject
MozRepl::RemoteObject is up to date (0.32).

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      Looks like both the packages are up to date. I have installed firefox but there is no UI on this machine, so not sure how to install the plugin from browser.
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        I have installed firefox but there is no UI on this machine, so not sure how to install the plugin from browser.

        Last I checked, firefox won't run without a UI, so you need a UI

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