Installing curl extension for perl on OpenVMS Alpha

Eric Robertson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.ports.vms
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

We are using your recent update of open source curl for OpenVMS as part 
of a utility for automating the download of a data file from a website 
using OpenVMS Alpha V8.3. We have a perl script that makes use of curl 
that runs on OpenSUSE Linux 11.2 and we wanted to use that script on 
OpenVMS Alpha using perl V5.8.6. However, the OpenVMS version of perl 
does not come with curl extension for perl and so the the curl extension 
module needs to be installed after the installation of perl. We 
installed (and successfully tested) the version of curl for OpenVMS that 
we installed. But when I attempted to install the curl extension module 
for perl by running the supplied Makefile.PL script (downloaded as part 
of the WWW::Curl package 
<http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SZ/SZBALINT/WWW-Curl-4.11.tar.gz> 
from the CPAN web site), I get the following error message:

Can't locate Module/Install/Admin.pm in @INC (@INC contains: 
/perl_root/lib/VMS_AXP/5_8_6 perl_root:[lib] 
perl_root:[lib.site_perl.VMS_AXP] perl_root:[lib.site_perl] 
/perl_root/lib/site_perl .) at inc/Module/Install.pm line 160.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 4.
%SYSTEM-W-NOSUCHFILE, no such file

The file Admin.pm does not exist anywhere in the perl installation 
directory tree and I was not able to find any information about how to 
download it or produce it from source. Has anyone else tried to do this 
using perl on OpenVMS or do you know anybody who might know something 
about this?

Thanks in advance for any wisdom,


Eric
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