Still stumbling toward the light... All right, first of all, for activestate on winxp

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePerl/faq/ActivePerl-faq2.html#repositories

is what I should have read first. I am not sure what the "cpan" module/command does. However, I am slowly concluding that the program I should be using to install stuff is called with "ppm" not cpan.

So, I do ppm, then the same command

install log::log4perl
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I get "searching for this module returned no results" or something to this effect. I now believe my ppm is not configured with a repository that contains this module. I do the "rep" command, and learn that I have two repositories, active state repositories, I guess they come installed by default. I now would like to identify a repository that has what I want and add it to the other two repositories. But how?

http://search.cpan.org/~mschilli/Log-Log4perl-0.49/

doesn't help... so still mulling...