PPM problem with Win32::OLE

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

Good day bros. On advice of a monk in another thread I am seeking to check out mod Win32::IEAutomation. When I ask PPM ver 4.01 (ActivePerl 5.8.8.820) to install that it tells me "WARNING: Can't find any package that provide Win32-OLE for Win32-IEAutomation."

Yet I checked my Perl setup and C:\Perl\lib\Win32 already contains OLE.pm. Why is PPM choking if Win32-OLE is already installed?

Many TIA...

Steve

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Re: PPM problem with Win32::OLE by syphilis (Archbishop) on Mar 24, 2007 at 04:20 UTC
I get the same. I don't know how to resolve the issue. As a workaround, since Win32::IEAutomation requires no compilation, you could install from CPAN source if you have either nmake or dmake. (The latter is freely available from http://search.cpan.org/dist/dmake/.) It's then just a matter of downloading the Win32::IEAutomation source from http://search.cpan.org/~prashant/Win32-IEAutomation-0.5/, extracting the tarball to some location, 'cd'ing to that location and running, in sequence 'perl Makefile.PL', 'dmake test' and 'dmake install'. (Replace those 'dmake' commands with comparable 'nmake' commands if that's appropriate.) Cheers, Rob Update: It's interesting that Win32::IEAutomation installs fine using the version of PPM (2.1.8) that's on CPAN. (It's probably not a good idea, however, to attempt replacing ppm-4 with the CPAN version of ppm.)	[reply]
Re: PPM problem with Win32::OLE by randyk (Parson) on Mar 24, 2007 at 18:26 UTC
Probably, in making up the ppd package for Win32::IEAutomation, the dependency on the module Win32::OLE got translated into a dependency on the ppm package Win32-OLE. While this s/::/-/g translation from module to package name often works, it fails sometimes - in this case, Win32::OLE is found within the libwin32 package, which already comes installed with ActivePerl. The solution is to remove the dependency on Win32-OLE within the Win32-IEAutomation ppd file.	[reply]
Re: PPM problem with Win32::OLE by Anonymous Monk on Mar 24, 2007 at 04:37 UTC
force install	[reply]
Re^2: PPM problem with Win32::OLE by randyk (Parson) on Mar 24, 2007 at 18:38 UTC
With the ppm of ActivePerl 820, the syntax is `ppm install Package-Name --nodeps` [download] to install a package without resolving the dependencies.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: PPM problem with Win32::OLE by cormanaz (Deacon) on Mar 24, 2007 at 16:11 UTC
`ppm install --force Win32-IEAutomation ppm install failed: Can't find any package that provide Win32-OLE for +Win32-IEAutomation` [download]	[reply] [d/l]