all right, I've got a brand new virtual Windows machine set up, and installed Strawberry Perl 5.24.0.1 64 bit. The VM has no Oracle. Now, I'm trying to install PDF::Create and here's what I've got.

LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to www.cpan.org:80]
Warning: no success downloading 'C:\STRAWB~1\cpan\sources\authors\01ma
+ilrc.txt.g
z.tmp3728'. Giving up on it.
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to www.cpan.org:80]
Warning: no success downloading 'C:\STRAWB~1\cpan\sources\authors\01ma
+ilrc.txt.g
z.tmp3728'. Giving up on it.
Warning: no success downloading 'C:\STRAWB~1\cpan\sources\authors\01ma
+ilrc.txt.g
z.tmp3728'. Giving up on it.

As a last resort we now switch to the external ftp command 'C:\Windows
+\system32\
ftp.exe'
to get 'C:\STRAWB~1\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp3728'.

Doing so often leads to problems that are hard to diagnose.

If you're the victim of such problems, please consider unsetting the
ftp config variable with

    o conf ftp ""
    o conf commit

Fetching with LWP:
http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to cpan.strawberryperl
+.com:80]
Warning: no success downloading 'C:\STRAWB~1\cpan\sources\authors\01ma
+ilrc.txt.g
z.tmp3728'. Giving up on it.
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to www.cpan.org:80]
Warning: no success downloading 'C:\STRAWB~1\cpan\sources\authors\01ma
+ilrc.txt.g
z.tmp3728'. Giving up on it.
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to www.cpan.org:80]
Warning: no success downloading 'C:\STRAWB~1\cpan\sources\authors\01ma
+ilrc.txt.g
z.tmp3728'. Giving up on it.
Warning: no success downloading 'C:\STRAWB~1\cpan\sources\authors\01ma
+ilrc.txt.g
z.tmp3728'. Giving up on it.

As a last resort we now switch to the external ftp command 'C:\Windows
+\system32\
ftp.exe'
to get 'C:\STRAWB~1\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp3728'.

Doing so often leads to problems that are hard to diagnose.

If you're the victim of such problems, please consider unsetting the
ftp config variable with

    o conf ftp ""
    o conf commit

Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file
(http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/, http://www.cpan.org/,
http://www.cpan.org/) are valid. The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 
+'o
conf urllist push ftp://myurl/'

Could not fetch authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Lockfile removed.
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