Requirements

• perl-5.8.0 or later. See INSTALL-561 if you insist installing it on Perl 5.6.1.
• a bunch of modules, see Makefile.PL
• Expat http://www.jclark.com/xml/expat.html and http://expat.sourceforge.net/ You need to install expat before you install this module because XML::Parser requires Expat.
• [optional] If you wish https support you must install OpenSSL http://www.openssl.org/ and Crypt::SSLeay You may install it later. Follow the installation instructions in Crypt::SSLeay if your OS comes with OpenSSL installed, but you encounter problems (that is, install it again in in the preferred location).
• [optional] If you wish to send e-mail install MIME::Lite.

Installation

It's all pure Perl, but you need a bunch of modules from CPAN. The easiest way to install this distribution is using the CPAN shell.

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install WWW::Webrobot

Of course you may use the traditional canon (after you installed all required modules, see Makefile.PL):

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

Installation problems

I suggest the following order

• Install Perl
• Install expat http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/
• Install Webrobot via cpan shell
• [optional] Install MIME::Lite (for sending mails)
• [optional] Install OpenSSL (for usage by Crypt::SSLeay)
• [optional] Install Crypt::SSLeay (for https support)

Although expat is installed in many operating systems it may be in another destination as XML::Parser will expect it. If you fail installing Webrobot then I suggest this order:

• install LWP
• install expat into the standard directories
• XML::Parser
• again install Webrobot via cpan shell

Installation on Windows

If you are on a windows box you probably should use 'nmake' rather than 'make'. If you can't install perl yourself you may

• use the ActiveState distribution http://activestate.com/
• use the Perl version on http://webrobot.abas.de/download.html It contains all necessary modules, but doesn't contain webrobot itself.
  • Unpack it to c:/perl or anywhere else
  • set PATH to find perl (e.g. c:/perl/bin)
  • unpack webrobot*.tgz into <WEBROBOT>
  • set PERL5LIB=<WEBROBOT>/lib

LICENSE

AUTHOR: Stefan Trcek

COPYRIGHT: Copyright(c) 2004 ABAS Software AG

LICENSE: This software is licensed under the Perl license, see LICENSE file.