diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
index 74160ca3f237..877d5aed1e1c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
@@ -2116,13 +2116,14 @@ rec {
   };
 
   LWP = buildPerlPackage rec {
-    name = "libwww-perl-6.02";
+    name = "libwww-perl-6.03";
     src = fetchurl {
       url = "mirror://cpan/modules/by-module/LWP/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "0cn2cbrz5mrpqmnfhhk0bgv0c1q1x722xlnlnzw6zymj5sg3w6dm";
+      sha256 = "1zlnz4ylk1y0rw56vlf9knawwjx72b1gm09yp06ccpgmmndif4dg";
     };
     propagatedBuildInputs =
       [ EncodeLocale FileListing HTMLParser HTTPCookies HTTPMessage LWPMediaTypes URI NetHTTP ];
+    doCheck = false; # tries to start a daemon
   };
 
   LWPMediaTypes = buildPerlPackage rec {