hi,

I ran into some programs trying to install Spreadsheet::WriteExcel. I'm trying to do this on a new machine so I may not have configured ppm and CPAN correctly.

I followed the instructions here to configure ppm to handle the firewall, but it doesn't seem to work. Downloading the package from here and trying to install it with

ppm install <location>

doesn't work either.

When I tried CPAN I managed to locate the module but when CPAN tries to run the test during installation it returns

'test' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable 
+program or batch file.
test --NOT OK
Running make install
   make test had returned bad status, won't install without force

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Does anyone know how to solve this?

In reply to problems installing Spreadsheet::WriteExcel by dannoura

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