how to make win32::GUItest to work????

loki has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

hi, i am trying to use Win32::GuiTest and am using XP and perl V 5.8.6 but am getting error as

" Can't locate loadable object for module Win32::GuiTest in @INC (@INC contains: C :/Perl/lib C:/Perl/site/lib .) at E:\a\simply.pl line 259 Compilation failed in require at E:\a\simply.pl line 259. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at E:\a\simply.pl line 259."

and as per the cpan module Win32-GuiTest-1.3 i tried to install...

i created a dir as TEMP in drive C:ie

C:\TEMP

and i downloaded the zip file and extracted the contents and placed the TEMP dir and gave the command

C:\TEMP>ppm

ppm> install C:\temp\win32-guitest.ppd

its giving an error as... Error: no suitable installation target found for package Win32-GuiTest.

if i use the package Win32-GuiTest-1.56 its giving the error as Error: Package 'win32-guitest' not found. Please 'search' for it first.

please help me how can i make it work... please thanks in advance

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Re: how to make win32::GUItest to work???? by marto (Cardinal) on Jan 19, 2010 at 10:52 UTC
From the command prompt type: `ppm install http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/Win32-GuiTest.ppd` Also Perl 5.8.6 is pretty old now, you should consider upgrading to either the latest 5.8 release or to 5.10.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: how to make win32::GUItest to work???? by loki (Novice) on Jan 19, 2010 at 14:07 UTC
its throwing me error as Error: Failed to download URL http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/Win32-GuiTest.ppd: 501 Protocol scheme '' is not supported how can i fix it please help	[reply]
Re^3: how to make win32::GUItest to work???? by Anonymous Monk on Jan 19, 2010 at 14:16 UTC
Are you using a proxy? ppm 501 Protocol scheme '' is not supported	[reply]
Re^4: how to make win32::GUItest to work???? by loki (Novice) on Jan 21, 2010 at 06:31 UTC
Re^5: how to make win32::GUItest to work???? by Anonymous Monk on Jan 21, 2010 at 07:25 UTC
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