The perl SOAP library is need to talk to CPAN. I was not able to use cpan from the command line due to iptables restrictions so manually adding the packages is what finally worked. Heres my steps:
> up2date -i perl-Crypt-SSLeay
> wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/J/JP/JPEACOCK/version-0.74.tar.gz
> wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MS/MSCHWERN/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.44.tar.gz
> wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MK/MKUTTER/SOAP-Lite-0.71.04.tar.gz
> tar xvzf version*
> tar xvzf ExtUtils*
> tar xvzf SOAP*
> cd version
> perl Makefile.PL
> make
> make install
> cd ../ExtUtils*
> perl Makefile.PL
> make
> make install
> cd ../SOAP*
> perl Makefile.PL
> make
> make test
> make install
> wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/J/JP/JPEACOCK/version-0.74.tar.gz
> wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MS/MSCHWERN/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.44.tar.gz
> wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MK/MKUTTER/SOAP-Lite-0.71.04.tar.gz
> tar xvzf version*
> tar xvzf ExtUtils*
> tar xvzf SOAP*
> cd version
> perl Makefile.PL
> make
> make install
> cd ../ExtUtils*
> perl Makefile.PL
> make
> make install
> cd ../SOAP*
> perl Makefile.PL
> make
> make test
> make install
OK .. wshew now SOAP::Lite is installed and we can script to webservices in Sakai
Posted by Kevin Foote in work on May 05, 2008
