Missing a lot of files in Perl kit

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EDIT: Solution was "apt-get install libwww-per" from charlesbridge in the comments

EDIT: Attempted to install by both going into the cpan console and running install LWP::Simple as well as perl -MCPAN -e'install "LWP::Simple"' (from here).

The first time I ran CPAN I just let it configure itself with all the defaults. The below is not a description of the dependencies but all of the missing dependencies are included in this warning message, so I figure if I can solve that then I can solve the rest of it.

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I've been trying to install some missing Perl packages (namely LWP::Simple) but every time I do it spits back a trillion errors and ends with "Missing 17 dependencies". Most (if not all) are listed below at the very start of the install process. I've tried installing individual ones but I get similar dependency errors. Is there some way to fix this?

    Checking if your kit is complete...
Warning: the following files are missing in your kit:
    eg/hanchors
    eg/hdump
    eg/hform
    eg/hlc
    eg/hrefsub
    eg/hstrip
    eg/htext
    eg/htextsub
    eg/htitle
    hints/solaris.pl
    lib/HTML/Entities.pm
    lib/HTML/Filter.pm
    lib/HTML/HeadParser.pm
    lib/HTML/LinkExtor.pm
    lib/HTML/PullParser.pm
    lib/HTML/TokeParser.pm
    t/api_version.t
    t/argspec-bad.t
    t/argspec.t
    t/argspec2.t
    t/attr-encoded.t
    t/callback.t
    t/case-sensitive.t
    t/cases.t
    t/comment.t
    t/crashme.t
    t/declaration.t
    t/default.t
    t/document.t
    t/dtext.t
    t/entities.t
    t/entities2.t
    t/filter-methods.t
    t/filter.t
    t/handler-eof.t
    t/handler.t
    t/headparser-http.t
    t/headparser.t
    t/ignore.t
    t/largetags.t
    t/linkextor-base.t
    t/linkextor-rel.t
    t/magic.t
    t/marked-sect.t
    t/msie-compat.t
    t/offset.t
    t/options.t
    t/parsefile.t
    t/parser.t
    t/plaintext.t
    t/pod.t
    t/process.t
    t/pullparser.t
    t/script.t
    t/skipped-text.t
    t/stack-realloc.t
    t/textarea.t
    t/threads.t
    t/tokeparser.t
    t/uentities.t
    t/unbroken-text.t
    t/unicode-bom.t
    t/unicode.t
    t/xml-mode.t
Please inform the author.

What command(s) are you running before you get these errors? Should just be "cpan LWP::Simple" — AKHolland, Nov 03 '16 at 19:41
`cpan` will automatically install dependencies (unless you configured it not to???) — ikegami, Nov 03 '16 at 19:57
`the following files are missing in your kit` has nothing to do with dependencies, so I have no idea what you are asking. — ikegami, Nov 03 '16 at 19:58
that output is from a `MANIFEST` check during the `perl Makefile.PL` phase. It's saying that all of those files are supposed to be bundled with the distribution, but they aren't. As others have said... how are you installing? — stevieb, Nov 03 '16 at 20:02
Simple.pm (package LWP::Simple) is in the (ubuntu) repository under libwww-perl. Maybe try apt-get install libwww-perl? — charlesbridge, Nov 03 '16 at 20:46
Do you get the same warning if you call cpan directly `cpan LWP::Simple`? — Ron Bergin, Nov 03 '16 at 20:49
Side note: using apt-get install libwww-perl did allow me to install LWP::Simple, but there are other modules I'd like that give the exact same problems — Koala Bear, Nov 04 '16 at 04:10

Missing a lot of files in Perl kit

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