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

I use Strawberry Perl (Portable) and I'd like to install some extra modules from CPAN. I just use the command "cpan MODULE NAME", and it works fine. But por some modules, I get an error message saying the module is unknown.

This happens for example with Tk::SplitFrame which is surely in Cpan

Why it is so?

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Re: Strawberry cpan install modules
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 31, 2014 at 02:09 UTC
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Re: Strawberry cpan install modules
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 30, 2014 at 18:13 UTC

    cpan installs (if I am not mistaken) the distribution that a module is part of. If direct module installation fails, do do a search as i /Tk::SplitFrame/ within cpan client, or search on (meta|search.)cpan.org. Apparently that module is installed by Tk-DKW distribution.

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      Thank you for your answer. I thought about it, and I tried it. But no results. WARNING: cannot install Tk::DKW, don't know what it is...

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        Horrible! Makefile.PL sets the name "Tk", while also requiring 'Tk' => '800.005'. So I doubt without chanting perl Makefile.PL && make && make install yourself, you would be able to install it.

        I would be happy to be corrected.

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Re: Strawberry cpan install modules
by f77coder (Beadle) on Aug 31, 2014 at 02:10 UTC

    Do you already have Tk installed?

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      Good point. With Tk already installed, Tk::SplitFrame installed for me with no problems:

      13:58 >p5u v Tk Tk::SplitFrame
Tk
        C:\Perl\Strawberry\strawberry-perl-5.20.0.1-64bit-PDL\perl\sit
+e\lib\Tk.pm: 804.032

Tk::SplitFrame
        Not found

14:20 >cpanm Tk::SplitFrame
--> Working on Tk::SplitFrame
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DK/DKWILSON/Tk-DKW-0.02.tar.
+gz ... OK
Configuring Tk-DKW-0.02 ... OK
==> Found dependencies: Tk::TiedListbox
--> Working on Tk::TiedListbox
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/A/AC/ACH/Tk-Contrib-0.07.tar.g
+z ... OK
Configuring Tk-Contrib-0.07 ... OK
Building and testing Tk-Contrib-0.07 ... OK
Successfully installed Tk-Contrib-0.07
Building and testing Tk-DKW-0.02 ... OK
Successfully installed Tk-DKW-0.02
2 distributions installed

14:21 >p5u v Tk Tk::SplitFrame
Tk
        C:\Perl\Strawberry\strawberry-perl-5.20.0.1-64bit-PDL\perl\sit
+e\lib\Tk.pm: 804.032

Tk::SplitFrame
        C:\Perl\Strawberry\strawberry-perl-5.20.0.1-64bit-PDL\perl\sit
+e\lib\Tk\SplitFrame.pm: 1.01

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      I’m also using Strawberry Perl portable (on Windows 8.1, 64-bit):

      14:27 >perl -v

This is perl 5, version 20, subversion 0 (v5.20.0) built for MSWin32-x
+64-multi-thread

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      Hope that helps,

      Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

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