Installing Mail::Box

gsd4me has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Can anyone tell me please how to install Mail::Box (and its constituents) as I am failing miserably:

I am using W10, PPM and when I do ppm install Mail::Box I get

Can't find any package that provides Mail::Message for Mail::Box

and

Can't find any package that provides Mail::Reporter for Mail::Transport

aren't these sort of things supposed to be recursive?

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Re: Installing Mail::Box by thanos1983 (Parson) on Oct 23, 2017 at 08:23 UTC
Hello gsd4me, Just to add a possible alternative solution to your problem (assuming that you get no problems installing) App::cpanminus. More information you can find How to install CPAN modules. Sample of installation output: $ cpanm Mail::Box --> Working on Mail::Box Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MA/MARKOV/Mail-Box-3.003.tar +.gz ... OK Configuring Mail-Box-3.003 ... OK ==> Found dependencies: Mail::Transport, Object::Realize::Later, Mail: +:Message --> Working on Mail::Transport Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MA/MARKOV/Mail-Transport-3.0 +00.tar.gz ... OK Configuring Mail-Transport-3.000 ... OK ==> Found dependencies: Mail::Reporter --> Working on Mail::Reporter Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MA/MARKOV/Mail-Message-3.002 +.tar.gz ... OK Configuring Mail-Message-3.002 ... OK ==> Found dependencies: User::Identity --> Working on User::Identity Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MA/MARKOV/User-Identity-0.97 +.tar.gz ... OK Configuring User-Identity-0.97 ... OK Building and testing User-Identity-0.97 ... OK Successfully installed User-Identity-0.97 Building and testing Mail-Message-3.002 ... OK Successfully installed Mail-Message-3.002 Building and testing Mail-Transport-3.000 ... OK Successfully installed Mail-Transport-3.000 --> Working on Object::Realize::Later Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MA/MARKOV/Object-Realize-Lat +er-0.19.tar.gz ... OK Configuring Object-Realize-Later-0.19 ... OK Building and testing Object-Realize-Later-0.19 ... OK Successfully installed Object-Realize-Later-0.19 Building and testing Mail-Box-3.003 ... OK Successfully installed Mail-Box-3.003 5 distributions installed [download] Hope this helps, BR. Seeking for Perl wisdom...on the process of learning...not there...yet!	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Installing Mail::Box by Anonymous Monk on Oct 22, 2017 at 21:56 UTC
cpan Mail::Box	[reply]
Re: Installing Mail::Box by gsd4me (Beadle) on Oct 23, 2017 at 18:13 UTC
You know when sometimes your brain goes into hibernation or you cannot see the wood for the trees or you cannot get beyond one simple mental thread? That was me yesterday. Apologies for being such a numpty and forgetting the simple ways!	[reply]