Linux converting from manual installation to PPA woes.

[Roger Bell_West]

On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 03:32:53PM -0000, RS wrote:
>Again I am guessing, but is HTTP::Request part of LWP::Protocol?  How you
>check whether Perl has been configured with the correct version of
>LWP::Protocol I'll have to leave someone else to answer.

I think this is unlikely to be the answer (I think the OP has two
Perls installed, one of them broken, and running as root is invoking
the other one), but for the record:

perl -e 'use LWP::Protocol;print $LWP::Protocol::VERSION,"\n";'

R