I just installed Strawberry perl using standard install choices. I have attempted in the "perl (command line)" window to install several required modules. I also have msys2 installed on this machine. I think there is some interference between msys2 and windows. Here is the result of trying to install a package: Install command: 
 
cpan install Gedcom

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Result: 
Loading internal logger. Log::Log4perl recommended for better logging
Reading '\c\Users\Owner\.cpan\Metadata'
  Database was generated on Tue, 23 Apr 2019 23:29:03 GMT
Running install for module 'Gedcom'
CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v6.02)
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.081)
Checksum for \c\Users\Owner\.cpan\sources\authors\id\P\PJ\PJCJ\Gedcom-
+1.20.tar.gz ok
The system cannot find the path specified.
Uncompressed \c\Users\Owner\.cpan\sources\authors\id\P\PJ\PJCJ\Gedcom-
+1.20.tar.gz successfully
Using Tar:/usr/bin/tar xf "Gedcom-1.20.tar":
The system cannot find the path specified.
Couldn't untar Gedcom-1.20.tar: child exited with value 1
CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v1.27)
  PJCJ/Gedcom-1.20.tar.gz
  Had problems unarchiving. Please build manually

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I need to keep msys2 in this machine. Any thoughts on how to get perl to use the correct tar, or the correct path form?

In reply to cpan install fails with bad tar call by RockyRoccoco

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