I'm a complete server newbie, and am trying to install the Libwww perl module. After I upload the tarbal to my home directory, I telnet to the shell and issue these command :

1)tar -xzf libwww-perl-5.18.tar.gz
2) cd libwww-perl-5.18
3) perl Makefile.PL LIB=/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0
4) make
5) make test
6) make install

after step 3 it ends with some error messages and when I try step 4 it simply states there is no make? Could someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong?

I also tried installing via CPAN, but that didn't go well either as when it asked me where my make command was located I could not find it anywhere!

Any suggestions or advice would be most welcome!

It sounds like you might be not be root. You need to be root to run make. Try su - hit enter then your root password.

ditto, sounds like your only in Admin mode, you need to be root user to do major stuff.. do as daviddel suggested and you should be good... Mouse

Urr I know this is gonna sound really stupid but what is my root password? So do I just login via ssh and what do i put for my login, RS-XXXX and password is the password that I signed up with?

And what does su mean?

when you first login user is admin with the password you signed up with..

su - = super user root (God access)

it by default uses the same password, it is reccomended to change that password..
search forum for keywords: first steps
and you will find a slew of things to do and how to do them... Mouse