On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 05:17:05PM -0400, Joe Landman wrote: > Depending upon distro, you would need libattr, attr-dev, etc. > Sadly, there is little/no consistency in naming these. On Ubuntu 10.04 attr-dev is an alias for libattr1-dev, which seems to install okay but there's still no ExtAttr.pm on the system. However fetching the source for File::ExtAttr from CPAN and building that by hand, rather than with the cpan utility, does work. Then Getopt::Lucid does install successfully with the cpan utility - couldn't find it as an Ubuntu package. At which point your script runs. Thanks, Whit