note Plankton I noticed this in the output you posted: <code> You can set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to specify your Java 2 SDK installation directory. For example, if you are using the CPAN installer you can do: JAVA_HOME=/path/to/your/j2sdk/installation cpan Inline::Java </code> ... did you happen run cpan as it discusses. Looks like you executed: <code> $sudo cpan Inline::Java </code> But the message you got says you should do something like: <code> $ sudo JAVA_HOME=/path/to/your/j2sdk/installation cpan Inline::Java </code> 1019066 1019106