Hi,

I am trying to install SOAP:Lite on a linux machine which sits behind a firewall that will only allow me to make requests of it, but will not allow that machine to make requests out.

Therefore I cannot use the CPAN installer stuff, as it sends requests for files to the internet.

I thus downloaded the SOAP Lite tarball from: http://search.cpan.org/~mkutter/SOAP-Lite-0.710.08/ . After untarring it I tried to run perl Makefile.PL, and I got the following error: 
WARNING: LICENSE is not a known parameter.
Warning: Prerequisite XML::Parser 2.23 not found.
Warning: Prerequisite version 0 not found.
'LICENSE' is not a known MakeMaker parameter name.
Could not eval '
            package ExtUtils::MakeMaker::_version;
            no strict;

            local $VERSION;
            $VERSION=undef; do{
                use version; $VERSION = qv('0.710.08');
            ); $VERSION
        ' in lib/SOAP/Lite.pm: Can't locate version.pm in @INC (...)

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But it still created the makefile, so I thought I would attempt to press on. I ran the command make, and it seemed to work alright. Then I ran make test, and it failed 23 of the 37 test scripts. Once again the majority of the errors were of the form "Can't locate version.pm".

I suppose my question is; where is version.pm located, if it exists, so that I can add it to my INC path? If this is not the problem, then what do I do to fix it? And otherwise, are there any other alternative methods of installing perl modules from behind a firewall?

I also tried to install XML::Parser first in order to fix that pre-requisite problem, but the version of XML::Parser that I downloaded from here: http://search.cpan.org/~msergeant/XML-Parser-2.36/Parser.pm , also will not install. In this case the call to perl Makefile.PL works fine, but when I try to run make I get errors of the following sort: "Expat.c:2609: error: ‘XML_Parser’ undeclared (first use in this function)". Also, and perhaps more troubling is this one: "Expat.xs:12:19: error: expat.h: No such file or directory". Am I just downloading from the wrong places or something?

Any help on how to get my install to work would be appreciated.
Cheers,

Shug

In reply to Installing SOAP::Lite from behind a firewall by shug94

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