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CPAN Testers says that LWP::Simple tests and installs fine all the way down to 5.8.1 at least on some Unix platforms. There aren't any tests on Solaris at that low a version, but hopefully it'll be ok.

I would use the cpanm command, or if it isn't installed, cpan. This will fetch, test and install the module from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (aka "the CPAN"). That's the global central repository for all publicly available Perl modules and distributions, and is open to all to download from, and add to (the latter requires an account).

Simply run cpanm LWP::Simple. If you don't have cpanm, run cpan LWP::Simple.

You may need to elevate to root privileges, so either use sudo before the above commands, or log into a superuser shell if that's the case.

In reply to Re: Need to install Perl Modules by stevieb
in thread Need to install Perl Modules by mrmurdock

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