PPM fails to install, complains of

retrosteve has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Oh dear illustrious monks, I am a humble windows user now and all my years of Unix help not.

Why does PPM complain at me:

PPM> install Win32::GUI
Install package 'Win32::GUI?' (y/N): y
Retrieving package 'Win32::GUI'...

junk after document element at line 1, column 69, byte 69 at d:/Perl/s
+ite/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 168
[download]

It does this regardless of which package I request. It does it even after I uninstall and reinstall Perl.
I am stumped.

oh help.

Steve Rapaport, World Citizen in Training

Comment on PPM fails to install, complains of Download Code

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re: PPM fails to install by agoth (Chaplain) on Nov 06, 2000 at 14:51 UTC
I've had the same error when trying to install a module that the binary doesnt exist for on the package repository that you are using. But also, for DBD::ODBC for example the colons are important: >PPM install DBD::ODBC gives the 'junk' error >PPM install DBD-ODBC works fine Check the package exists and the package name	[reply]
RE: PPM fails to install, complains of by TStanley (Canon) on Nov 06, 2000 at 18:38 UTC
PPM doesn't like the "::" in the file name. You need to use a "-" character in place of it. That should work. TStanley There can be only one!	[reply]