in reply to problems installing Spreadsheet::WriteExcel

We need more input here:

  1. Your message indicates you're trying to install this on Windows, I and maybe some others would find it helpful if you told us more about about your platform.
  2. What specifically happens when you run ppm to install the package? Tell us what you've tried that hasn't worked, but also tell us what happened.

The make command doesn't come with a default Windows installation.

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Re: Re: problems installing Spreadsheet::WriteExcel
by dannoura (Pilgrim) on Nov 25, 2003 at 19:22 UTC

    Sorry. Forgot to mention. I'm running it on WinXP. I downloaded nmake from here, but only after configuring CPAN, so maybe it can't locate it now.

    When I run ppm it simply says

    No matches for 'Spreadsheet::WriteExcel'; see 'help search'.

    Which I think means that it couldn't get over the firewall (since it also can't locate other, common, modules).

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      Change the '::' separator to '-', ie: ppm install Spreadsheet-WriteExcel

      If you're running from the ppm prompt, you can search then install by the number of the result.

      What an awkward sentence that was! I'll just paste a screenshot:

      ppm> search WriteExcel
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        Don't think that'll work. I can't even get past the

        search Spreadsheet::WriteExcel

        Even using

        search spreadsheet

        doesn't give me anything.

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