1-8-2003

  Notes on when I installed what I needed to get my nova.cgi program
working in Patolis.  All told, it requires 10 packages to be installed.

  First of all, it uses LWP::UserAgent and HTTP::Request, which is a
part of libwww-perl.  Also, in order to use https/SSL, I needed
Crypt-SSLeay, which required OpenSSL (which isn't a Perl module per se,
rather it's a generic utility).

libwww-perl requires URI (which itself requires HTML-Tagset)
                     HTML-Parser
                     MIME-Base64
                     libnet
                     Digest (which requires Digest-MD5)
Also, Crypt-SSLeay requires OpenSSL to be installed before building.

Here are the 10 packages in the order I installed them in, with their
installation detailed below.
  1) OpenSSL
  2) URI
  3) HTML-Tagset
  4) HTML-Parser
  5) MIME-Base64
  6) libnet
  7) Digest-MD5
  8) Digest
  9) libwww-perl
 10) Crypt-SSLeay

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1) Got OpenSSL from www.openssl.org, which was openssl-0.9.7.tar.gz
   (just released December, 2002)

     gzip -d < openssl-0.9.7.tar.gz | tar xvf -
     cd openssl-0.9.7
     ./config
     make
     su
     make install
     exit
  This took quite a while and installed 341 files under /usr/local/ssl.

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2) Got URI-1.23.tar.gz from CPAN (released January, 2003).

     gzip -d < URI-1.23.tar.gz | tar xvf -
     cd URI-1.23
     perl Makefile.PL
     make
     su
     make install
     exit

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3) Note that HTML-Tagset must be installed before HTML-Parser.
   Got HTML-Tagset-3.03.tar.gz from CPAN (released October, 2000).

     gzip -d < HTML-Tagset-3.03.tar.gz | tar xvf -
     cd HTML-Tagset-3.03
     perl Makefile.PL
     make
     su
     make install
     exit

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4) Got HTML-Parser-3.26.tar.gz from CPAN (released March, 2002).

     gzip -d < HTML-Parser-3.26.tar.gz | tar xvf -
     cd HTML-Parser-3.26
     perl Makefile.PL
     make
     su
     make install
     exit

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5) Got MIME-Base64-2.16.tar.gz from CPAN (released January, 2003).

     gzip -d < MIME-Base64-2.16.tar.gz | tar xvf -
     cd MIME-Base64-2.16
     perl Makefile.PL
     make
     su
     make install
     exit

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6) Got libnet-1.12.tar.gz from CPAN (released May, 2002)
   not libnet-1.0703 released March 2000.

     gzip -d < libnet-1.12.tar.gz | tar xvf -
     cd libnet-1.12
     perl Makefile.PL
   When I did this, I got these messages
      Checking for Socket...ok
      Checking for IO::Socket...ok
      Checking if your kit is complete...
      Looks good

      Ah, I see you already have installed libnet before.

      Do you want to modify/update your configuration (y|n) ? [no] yes

   This is flat-out wrong.  It's making that determination due to the
   Net/Config.pm directory, relative to your current directory, which
   of course, is the initial libnet-1.12 distribution!!.  This happened
   to me back on 1-24-2001 (see my aixnotes/perl file) and back then,
   as I did here, I answered "yes".

   I just took the defaults to all the rest of their questions.

     make
     su
     make install
     exit

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7) Note that Digest-MD5 must be installed before Digest.
   Got Digest-MD5-2.22.tar.gz from CPAN (released January, 2003).

     gzip -d < Digest-MD5-2.22.tar.gz | tar xvf -
     cd Digest-MD5-2.22
     perl Makefile.PL
     make
     su
     make install
     exit

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8) Got Digest-1.01.tar.gz from CPAN (released January, 2003).

     gzip -d < Digest-1.01.tar.gz | tar xvf -
     cd Digest-1.01
     perl Makefile.PL
     make
     su
     make install
     exit

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9) Got libwww-perl-5.68.tar.gz from CPAN (released January, 2003).

     gzip -d < libwww-perl-5.68.tar.gz | tar xvf -
     cd libwww-perl-5.68
     perl Makefile.PL
     make
     su
     make install
     exit

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10) Got Crypt-SSLeay-0.45.tar.gz from CPAN (released August, 2002).

     gzip -d < Crypt-SSLeay-0.45.tar.gz | tar xvf -
     cd Crypt-SSLeay-0.45
     perl Makefile.PL
     make
     su
     make install
     exit

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