this issue is solved - i finally was able to install the package! see below! Many thanks to Axweildr and Keath for this great walkthrough - it is a great lesson with a nice - steep learning courve. And you are great guides! I continue to go to the next step - discussing a Perl-task - But this can be discussed in a new thread... I will open this in the next few hours. original thread: - here it is: this is a easy question for all the experts of you. how to install HTML-TreeBuilder-LibXML on OpenSuse v. 11.3? I am new to Linux and also pretty new to Perl