There is some real cool software - from my standpoint - that I pulled off CPAN at the advice of a friend. Alas, said friend runs LINUX and I am still on Windows for a brief while longer. The advertised software simply refused to install on my machine -- telling me it couldn't do a mkdir at such and such a line of code buried deep in install.pm. It also told me that it needed version .08 of some OLE module. I installed version 1.4. (The two modules in question had the same author.) My question is what do I do? Write the author? Post queries here? How often does this happen with CPAN code? -- this particular one had passed seven tests and failed one for MSWIN32.... Give up and find another way to solve the problem?

In reply to How to get started with CPAN by maryfran

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