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hello,

i need help calling a privately installed module from a script. my server admin installed perl with the standard modules and simply no extras, including the LWP::Simple mod i need. (side note: ive asked for it to be installed).

in the meantime, i installed it (libwww-perl-5.62.tar.gz) into a privately created directory called 'myperl', using the steps decompress, unpack, build, install. on the 'build' step i entered:

$ perl Makefile.PL LIB=/home/virtual/admin/home/httpd/cgi-bin/myperl PREFIX=/home/virtual/admin/home/httpd/cgi-bin/myperl

everything seemed to work well... all mods are there.

my script (which is in cgi-bin/print directory) reads:

require 5;
use LWP::Simple;

cpan says to use one of the following:

1] foo@barbell$ setenv PERL5LIB /path/to/module sets the environment variable PERL5LIB.

2] use lib qw(/path/to/module); used at the top of your script tells perl where to find your module.

3] foo@barbell$ perl -I/path/to/module

in my script ive typed (one example of many variations ive tried):

require 5;
use LWP::Simple qw(/home/virtual/sbcadmin/home/httpd/cgi-bin/myperl/LWP/Simple.pm);

SIDE NOTE: my server info: Red Hat Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig)
Kernel 2.2.12-20ensim on an i686

is this simply something i cannot do without admin and root privileges or is my syntax incorrect somewhere?

thanks in advance,
sdiva

try:

require 5; #perl 5 or >
use lib '/home/virtual/sbcadmin/home/httpd/cgi-bin/myperl';

use LWP::Simple;

It worked perfectly. Thank you very much for the help!

sdiva