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SOAP::Lite on Slicehost's Ubuntu Hardy

I'm wanting to start doing some experimenting with Perl client applications for web services written using axis2c.  Never actually written a Perl script that consumes a web service, but it appears with SOAP::Lite it shouldn't be too hard.  This module doesn't appear to be installed with the standard Slicehost Ubuntu build, but Perl 5.8.8 is already on there.  I tried the CPAN command from SOAP::Lite's website, but this didn't seem to work for me.  So, I downloaded the tar file for SOAP::Lite.  When I tried to build it, I noticed I was missing the required XML::Parser module.  

We are about to install SOAP::Lite and for your convenience will provide
you with list of modules and prerequisites, so you'll be able to choose
only modules you need for your configuration.

XMLRPC::Lite, UDDI::Lite, and XML::Parser::Lite are included by default.
Installed transports can be used for both SOAP::Lite and XMLRPC::Lite.

Press <enter> to see the detailed list.  

Feature                       Prerequisites                Install?
----------------------------- ---------------------------- --------
Core Package                  [*] Scalar::Util             always  
                              [*] URI                              
                              [*] constant                         
                              [*] Test::More                       
                              [*] MIME::Base64                     
                              [*] Class::Inspector                 
                              [ ] XML::Parser (v2.23)              
                              [*] Task::Weaken                     

After downloading it from here and building per the README instructions, I ran the make commands for SOAP::Lite again and I'm good to go.  Yay.

root@ezraxu:/usr/lib/perl/5.8.8# perldoc -l SOAP::Lite
/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/SOAP/Lite.pm