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in reply to LWP::UserAgent @ Ubuntu 8.04 64-Bit

A word of warning, if I where you I'd leave the system perl alone and build your own. Simply download and unpack the source (http://www.perl.org/get.html) and configure it like so:

./Configure -des -Dprefix=$HOME/perl
make test
make install

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Ubuntu uses the the version of perl which ships with the system for some system tasks. IMHO it's best left alone.

Also you can use the method above to install various builds of perl on your system, should that interest you.

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Re^2: LWP::UserAgent @ Ubuntu 8.04 64-Bit
by derby (Abbot) on Aug 12, 2010 at 15:09 UTC

    marto++. I would leave *all* vendor perls (or python, or ruby, or ...) alone. For perl, look into PerlBrew for installing your own version of perl.

    -derby
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