Question

Hi,

I tried to install the DateFieldPlugin and JSCalendarContrib on my TWiki. But during the installation there emerge the following errors:

DateFieldPlugin: "Cannot find a package for DateFieldPlugin, and LWP is not installed so I can't download it. Please download an archive for this module manually and re-run this script. Unable to locate suitable archive for install"

--> instead of all the files are regulary extracted.

the same error occurs with JSCalendarContrib: "Cannot find a local archive for JSCalendarContrib, and LWP is not installed so I can't download it. Please download it manually and re-run this script. Unable to locate suitable archive for install"

Does anyone know, what LWP is? While looking for a solution I found something about "library www perl". I could imagine that this is the missing plugin, because the installer wants to download something, but after the installation of libwww-perl the errors were still the same. Can anyone help me??

Thanks a lot!!

Environment

-- MartinSimon - 16 Jul 2007

Answer

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LWP ist a CPAN module which is required by some plugins.

"The libwww-perl collection is a set of Perl modules which provides a simple and consistent application programming interface (API) to the World-Wide Web. The main focus of the library is to provide classes and functions that allow you to write WWW clients. The library also contain modules that are of more general use and even classes that help you implement simple HTTP servers."

You should be able to install it by typing cpan in your shell and then install LWP

-- CarloSchulz - 17 Jul 2007

See also HowToInstallCpanModules.

-- PeterThoeny - 17 Jul 2007