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   1 <title>Installation of libwww-perl-5</title>
   2
   3 <h1>How do you install libwww-perl-5?</h1>
   4
   5 <ol>
   6
   7   <li> First you have to obtain a copy of the <em>libwww-perl-5</em>
   8        package. It is distributed as a gzipped tar file which you must
   9        unpack at some suitable location in your file system.
  10        The most recent version of the library should be available at &lt;URL:<a
  11        href="http://www.sn.no/libwww-perl/">http://www.sn.no/libwww-perl/</a>&gt;
  12        as well as on the <a
  13        href="http://www.perl.com/perl/CPAN/CPAN.html">CPAN</a>.
  14
  15   <li> Read the <em>README</em> file that comes with the package. It
  16        should mention what version of perl that is required.
  17
  18   <li> Check perl version. Try to run the command <em>"perl -v"</em>. It should
  19        print a message like this <em>"This is perl, version
  20        5.002"</em>. If it prints <em>"perl: command not found"</em> then you
  21        need to install perl before you can proceed :-)
  22
  23   <li> Run the following commands (the '$' is the shell prompt and might
  24        be different on your system and the <em>xx</em> will depend on
  25        the version of the library that you are installing):
  26 <pre>
  27        $ cd libwww-perl-5.xx
  28        $ perl Makefile.PL
  29        $ make
  30        $ make test
  31        $ make install
  32 </pre>
  33
  34   <li> If it looks like these steps succeeded then that's it!
  35
  36 </ol>