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Handleing Web pages (Without actual installing CPAN)

Hi,

I work with unix,
If I understood correctly, To install Cpan modules -
I should be an administrator (and I'm not).

In order to "use Telnet" I took the file Telnet.pm and
Included in @INC the directory that contained the file.
It worked - without installing CPAN.

I'd like to write a perl script that handles web pages.
Perl cookbook offers the use of those modules:
LWP::Simple; , LWP::UserAgent;
URI::URL; , HTTP::Request;
I tied to use: lcwa-1.0.0/ library (took it from cpan.org) but
Without compiling CPAN I get Errors "Can't find func...".

Could you please offer me a solution ?
Either:
a) How to use the *.pm files without installing - so
It would work (unfortunatly each file uses other files
using "use" and "require"..... I tried gathering the files
the modules require in same library, then gave the same
tree of directories, but it didn't work for me).
Or
b) A way to handle Web pages without CPAN functions
(a demo script???).
I'd like to be able to send data & read a page in order
to analyze the text in the page.

Thanks,
Ronen.

shlomoy

you can install CPAN modules and not be a superuser.
You can install them locally.

When you download a CPAN module and you untar/ungzip it you should read the INSTALL and README files to learn how to install it locally for your own use.

shlomoy

If you want to install a private copy of libwww-perl in your home
directory, then you should try to produce the initial Makefile with
something like this command:

perl Makefile.PL LIB=~/perl

Sapa

"If I understood correctly, To install Cpan modules -
I should be an administrator (and I'm not)."

You can correctly install CPAN modules into any directory where you have enough rights to write, (usually somewhere in your home directory). Example:

gzip -cd libwww-perl-5.48.tar.gz | tar xvf -
cd libwww-perl-5.48
perl Makefile.PL LIB=/home/ronenla/perl
make
make install

and then use it like:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use lib '/home/ronenla/perl';
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request;
...

- Sapa

ronenla

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Shlomoy,
I already tried this option:
perl Makefile.PL LIB=~/my_dir
but it didn't work. I got those Errors:
syntax error in file Makefile.PL at line 4, next 2 tokens "use ExtUtils"
syntax error in file Makefile.PL at line 14, next 2 tokens "\MY:"

So I still need:

Either:
Help to locally install CPAN LWP lib
Or:
A demo script how to get a web page and analyze it.

Ronen.

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