in reply to How to get started with CPAN

Posting questions here is a good way to go. We'll need specifics: what module, what did you type, what was the error message precisely, etc.

As far as how often this kind of problem comes up, I'd say pretty much constantly. Perl runs great on Windows but few module authors test their modules there. It's not at all uncommon for a module to have an installation bug on Windows.

-sam

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Re^2: How to get started with CPAN
by maryfran (Novice) on Aug 25, 2005 at 19:51 UTC
    Here are some updated specifics: 1. The module asked for a specific version of another module. There was only a much later version of that on CPAN. I updated the Makefile.pl that came to ask for the later version when I did the manual make. I was unable to install the required module OLE::Storage_Lite as well. But I never got far enough into the install for that to be a problem. 2. Someone pointed me to ppm, which I used. I entered a repository. When I used ppm ppm> install Spreadsheet::ParseExcel I got an error message 'no suitable installation target for module found' This is consistent with the error messages I got when I tried to do the installation manually. These had reported that a mkdir operation failed. I suspect there is a key directory in my perl installation C:\perl\... missing. Oh yeah, almost forgot, I am running ActivePerl on Windows XP. My system has no proxy. We seem to be pulling files off of CPAN OK. Thanks for your attention! maryfran
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