Can't install MakeMaker

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

Hi. I'm trying to do a manual install of MakeMaker, since my firewalls at work prevent my using cpan/ppm. I download and unpack the tar file as usual, then do the perl Makefile.PL thing, at which point it tells me that I'm missing my\bundles.pm. Since I have an empty 'my' directory from the unzipped tar file, I moved a copy of bundles.pm there. The run of Makefile.PL then complained that virtually every file was missing from my kit, though they were all in the unpacked file. HELP!

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Re: Can't install MakeMaker (ptar) by Anonymous Monk on Feb 03, 2013 at 07:37 UTC
What did you use? Try ptar -z -x -v -f ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.64.tar.gz	[reply]
Re^2: Can't install MakeMaker (ptar) by VTBlogger (Initiate) on Feb 03, 2013 at 16:27 UTC
Bingo! I used WinZip, which didn't completely unpack it for some reason. Now I just have to figure out a "need JSON 2.5" bit and I should be good. Many thanks!	[reply]
Re: Can't install MakeMaker by Plankton (Vicar) on Feb 03, 2013 at 07:34 UTC
What version of Perl are you running. I believe "ExtUtils::MakeMaker" is a core modules. What do you get when you execute ... `perl -v perl -MExtUtils::MakeMaker -e1;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Can't install MakeMaker by VTBlogger (Initiate) on Feb 03, 2013 at 16:28 UTC
I needed 6.62 or up for another module; my perl install came with 6.50.	[reply]