I'm having no luck installing modules. I've run into two problems.

1. When I try to use "perl Makefile.PL" to configure a CPAN module, I 
get the error: "Error: Unable to locate installed Perl libraries or Perl 
source code." Apparently, it cannot find 
/System/Library/Perl/darwin/CORE/perl.h. I have confirmed that the file 
does not exist. Is there something basically wrong with Apple's standard 
installation of Perl for Mac OS X?

2. Has anyone successfully configured the CPAN shell to use an FTP 
proxy? I'm on a network that uses the kind of ftp proxy where you first 
connect to the proxy server, then login as 
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]". The CPAN documentation makes it sound 
as if this is a very standard form of proxy. However, After I enter the 
proxy information, it tries to use ftp to download MIRRORS.BY. As far as 
I can tell, it doesn't try to use the proxy, and fails to get the file. 
I thought that there might be a problem because I haven't installed the 
libnet module yet, but I can't install libnet because of problem 1, 
above.

thanks for any help,
Tom Sackett
Seattle, Washington

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