Re^3: Cpan reload index failed

"Or can I just download the module archives, extract and copy them in the perl folder - is that like a valid installation?"

This may take a long longer than you think, many modules have lots of dependencies.

"Or can I just download the module archives, extract and copy them in the perl folder - is that like a valid installation?"

Not wise, there are many modules containing C code which require compilation etc.

"I don't insist on using CPAN installation, I will be fine with manual configuration, but I am on Windows and don't have the make commands. Can someone suggest an alternative? Is dmake okay? Is there really a big difference between the two?"

In installation notes just replace the use of make with dmake, but you would be better resolving the issue you have IMHO.

"nothing helped"

Strange. Can you open a command prompt and try what I suggested and show me the output here?

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Re^4: Cpan reload index failed by greenhorn_007 (Acolyte) on May 20, 2014 at 16:22 UTC
I can't find a file named cpandb.sql nowhere. Seached all the disk space - nothing	[reply]
Re^4: Cpan reload index failed by greenhorn_007 (Acolyte) on May 20, 2014 at 16:27 UTC
Can't find the file you suggested I rename. Searched manually some dirs, then I searched the whole disk -simply nothing.	[reply]
Re^5: Cpan reload index failed by marto (Cardinal) on May 21, 2014 at 11:50 UTC
Then something is messed up, it'd likely take less time to uninstall this, download a fresh copy of Strawberry and install it. If you don't have internet access, also consider using minicpan to create an offline mirror.	[reply]
Re^6: Cpan reload index failed by greenhorn_007 (Acolyte) on May 27, 2014 at 22:22 UTC
Thanks for the help. The fact I don't have such file, meaning things are very messed up made me think a little bit more. So it rang some bells. The problem was somewhat in the proxy. It needed some more configuration info. Because before - it downloaded empty/corrupted archives of modules and authors and tried to make some database from them, unsuccessfully of course. So my bad ;) And thanks again	[reply]