Thanks marto,

Wow, do you have the entire CPAN as PPMs? PPM4 said "Don't know how to unpack ... " the zip file. So I tried it with PPM3 and got: 

C:\Documents and Settings\johnday.MERCURY>ppm3 install http://trouchel
+le.com/ppm/Data-ICal.ppd
error: can't parse <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?
<SOFTPKG NAME="Data-ICal" VERSION="0,13,0,0"
  <TITLE>Data-ICal</TITLE
  <ABSTRACT>Generates iCalendar (RFC 2445) calendar files</ABSTRACT
  <AUTHOR>Jesse Vincent &lt;jesse@bestpractical.com&gt;</AUTHOR
  <IMPLEMENTATION
    <DEPENDENCY NAME="Class-ReturnValue" VERSION="0,0,0,0" /
    <DEPENDENCY NAME="Class-Accessor" VERSION="0,0,0,0" /
    <DEPENDENCY NAME="MIME-Base64" VERSION="0,0,0,0" /
    <DEPENDENCY NAME="Text-vFile-asData" VERSION="0,0,0,0" /
    <OS NAME="MSWin32" /
    <ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8" /
    <CODEBASE HREF="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8/Data-ICal-0.13.zip" /
    <PROVIDE NAME="Data::ICal" VERSION="0.13" /
    <PROVIDE NAME="Data::ICal::Entry" /
    <PROVIDE NAME="Data::ICal::Entry::Alarm::Audio" /
    <PROVIDE NAME="Data::ICal::Entry::Alarm::Display" /
    <PROVIDE NAME="Data::ICal::Entry::Alarm::Email" /
    <PROVIDE NAME="Data::ICal::Entry::Alarm::Procedure" /
    <PROVIDE NAME="Data::ICal::Entry::Event" /
    <PROVIDE NAME="Data::ICal::Entry::FreeBusy" /
    <PROVIDE NAME="Data::ICal::Entry::Journal" /
    <PROVIDE NAME="Data::ICal::Entry::TimeZone" /
    <PROVIDE NAME="Data::ICal::Entry::TimeZone::Daylight" /
    <PROVIDE NAME="Data::ICal::Entry::TimeZone::Standard" /
    <PROVIDE NAME="Data::ICal::Entry::Todo" /
    <PROVIDE NAME="Data::ICal::Property" VERSION="0.06" /
  </IMPLEMENTATION
</SOFTPKG
:
unclosed token at line 1, column 0, byte 0 at C:/Perl/site/lib/XML/Par
+ser.pm line 187

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But I downloaded the zip file, and I am sure I can do a manual install tomorrow if necessary.

jdtoronto

UPDATED: Now I see why, you support PPM4 at build 820! I am on 819.

In reply to Re^2: Need advice on CPAN install please... by jdtoronto
in thread Need advice on CPAN install please... by jdtoronto

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