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All, I'm download package called term::readpassword and i cannot get it installed right,so here is what i did 1- i unzipped the file"Term-ReadPassword-0.01.tar.gz" into "lib" directory under "perl"directory 2-i got his directory "Term-ReadPassword-0.01" under "lib" 3- in the dos prompt i typed the following "C:\Perl\lib\Term-ReadPassword-0.01>c:\perl\bin\perl Makefile.pl" and i got the following "Writing Makefile for Term::ReadPassword" 4-when i type the following "C:\Perl\lib\Term-ReadPassword-0.01>make install" i got the following "'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file." also i replaced "make " with "dmake" and "nmake" i'm still cannot install it. any help please

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Re: install perl packages on Win2000
by matija (Priest) on Apr 02, 2004 at 18:01 UTC
    First of all check if Term::ReadPassword is available as PPM. Packages available as PPM are much easier to install on windows.

    If it isn't available as PPM, then you will probably have to install the appropriate tools. I'm pretty sure no form of make is installed on windows by default.

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Re: install perl packages on Win2000
by iburrell (Chaplain) on Apr 02, 2004 at 21:47 UTC
    Perl on Windows uses nmake for the make program. You can download nmake from Microsoft.
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Re: install perl packages on Win2000
by tachyon (Chancellor) on Apr 03, 2004 at 01:32 UTC
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