Indexing failed for installing Tk

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

Hello,

I'm new to Perl. I have a problem with installing Tk.

The error message:

Indexing failed! at C:/Strawberry/perl/vendor/lib/CPAN/SQLite.pm line 77, <DATA> line 69. CPAN::SQLite setup failed at C:/Strawberry/perl/vendor/lib/CPAN/SQLite/META.pm line 325, <DATA> line 69. system C:\Strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe -MCPAN::SQLite::META=setup,update,check -e setup failed: 6400 at C:\Strawberry\perl\vendor\lib/CPAN/SQLite/META.pm line 318.

I can't find a solution on google. Hope anyone can help me.

Thanks.

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Re: Indexing failed for installing Tk by Discipulus (Canon) on Jun 20, 2022 at 07:01 UTC
Hello Joseph, and welcome to the monastery and to the wonderful world of perl! more details needed: which strawberry distro are you using? Portable or installed? 32 or 64 bit? Latest or older perl version? Also how do you performed the installation? with `cpan` client or `cpanm` or other? The error you reported mentions CPAN::SQLite which has some problems as for tester matrix. I have just downloaded a fresh copy of strawberry portable 5.32 64bit and I have no problem installing `Tk` (I have used `notest` just to spare time) `cpan> notest install Tk ... Appending installation info to C:\EX_D\ulisseDUE\perl5.32\perl\lib/per +llocal.pod SREZIC/Tk-804.036.tar.gz C:\EX_D\ulisseDUE\perl5.32\c\bin\gmake.exe install UNINST=1 -- OK` [download] L* There are no rules, there are no thumbs.. Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Indexing failed for installing Tk by Joseph (Initiate) on Jun 20, 2022 at 08:59 UTC
Hello Discipulus, I installed strawberry v5.32.1 for MSWin32-x64-multi-thread My command is `cpan> install Tk` error message: Indexing failed! at C:/Strawberry/perl/vendor/lib/CPAN/SQLite.pm line 77, <DATA> line 69. CPAN::SQLite setup failed at C:/Strawberry/perl/vendor/lib/CPAN/SQLite/META.pm line 325, <DATA> line 69. system C:\Strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe -MCPAN::SQLite::META=setup,update,check -e setup failed: 6400 at C:\Strawberry\perl\vendor\lib/CPAN/SQLite/META.pm line 318.<\p> `perl -e "use Tk"` error message: Can't locate Tk.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Tk module) (@INC contains: C:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib C:/Strawberry/perl/vendor/lib C:/Strawberry/perl/lib) at -e line 1. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1 Thanks	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Indexing failed for installing Tk by marto (Cardinal) on Jun 20, 2022 at 09:06 UTC
cpan seems to fail trying to use CPAN::SQLite. For the moment disable it then try to install Tk: `o conf use_sqlite 0 o conf commit install Tk` [download] Update: if you're using Strawberry perl, it ships with cpanm by default, which is faster than cpan: `cpanm Tk`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]