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

Please, do go all perlmonks on me!

I am trying to install Lingua-Stem and the install fails, both from the PPM command line and from the graphical instance of PPM. Same reason is given in both places. Since it seems to be tripping up on something it installed, I am wondering if I should look for an alternate repository.

If anyone know a good alternate place to get Lingua::Stem, or something else I could do to get around this problem, please help. 

Synchronizing Database ... DONE
Lingua-Stem marked for install
Lingua-Stem depends on Lingua-Stem-It
Lingua-Stem depends on Lingua-Stem-Ru
Lingua-Stem depends on Lingua-Stem-Snowball-Da
Lingua-Stem depends on Lingua-PT-Stemmer
Lingua-Stem depends on Module-Build
Lingua-Stem depends on Snowball-Swedish
Lingua-Stem depends on Lingua-Stem-Fr
Lingua-Stem depends on Text-German
Lingua-Stem depends on Snowball-Norwegian
Prerequisite packages to be installed:
Lingua-Stem depends on Lingua-Stem-It
Lingua-Stem depends on Lingua-Stem-Ru
Lingua-Stem depends on Lingua-Stem-Snowball-Da
Lingua-Stem depends on Lingua-PT-Stemmer
Lingua-Stem depends on Module-Build
Lingua-Stem depends on Snowball-Swedish
Lingua-Stem depends on Lingua-Stem-Fr
Lingua-Stem depends on Text-German
Lingua-Stem depends on Snowball-Norwegian
Preparing install to site area of:
    Lingua-Stem
    Lingua-Stem-It
    Lingua-Stem-Ru
    Lingua-Stem-Snowball-Da
    Lingua-PT-Stemmer
    Module-Build
    Snowball-Swedish
    Lingua-Stem-Fr
    Text-German
    Snowball-Norwegian
Downloading Lingua-Stem-0.82 ... DONE
Downloading Lingua-Stem-It-0.01 ... DONE
Downloading Lingua-Stem-Ru-0.01 ... DONE
Downloading Lingua-Stem-Snowball-Da-1.01 ... DONE
Downloading Lingua-PT-Stemmer-0.01 ... DONE
Downloading Module-Build-0.2807 ... DONE
Downloading Snowball-Swedish-1.01 ... DONE
Downloading Lingua-Stem-Fr-0.02 ... DONE
Downloading Text-German-0.06 ... DONE
Downloading Snowball-Norwegian-1.0 ... DONE
Unpacking Lingua-Stem-0.82 ... DONE
Unpacking Lingua-Stem-It-0.01 ... DONE
Unpacking Lingua-Stem-Ru-0.01 ... DONE
Unpacking Lingua-Stem-Snowball-Da-1.01 ... DONE
Unpacking Lingua-PT-Stemmer-0.01 ... DONE
Unpacking Module-Build-0.2807 ... DONE
Unpacking Snowball-Swedish-1.01 ... DONE
Unpacking Lingua-Stem-Fr-0.02 ... DONE
Unpacking Text-German-0.06 ... DONE
Unpacking Snowball-Norwegian-1.0 ... DONE
Generating HTML for Lingua-Stem-0.82 ... DONE
Generating HTML for Lingua-Stem-It-0.01 ... DONE
Generating HTML for Lingua-Stem-Ru-0.01 ... DONE
Generating HTML for Lingua-Stem-Snowball-Da-1.01 ... DONE
Generating HTML for Lingua-PT-Stemmer-0.01 ... DONE
Generating HTML for Module-Build-0.2807 ... DONE
Generating HTML for Snowball-Swedish-1.01 ... DONE
Generating HTML for Lingua-Stem-Fr-0.02 ... DONE
Generating HTML for Text-German-0.06 ... DONE
Generating HTML for Snowball-Norwegian-1.0 ... DONE
Installing to site area ... failed

ERROR: File conflict; package Lingua-Stem-Snowball-Da already provide 
+C:/Perl/site/lib/Lingua/Stem/Snowball/stemmer.pl

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Re: Lingua::Stem install woe
by randyk (Parson) on Apr 11, 2007 at 23:10 UTC
    I'm not sure how to get around that - it's an annoying problem, as it aborts installation of everything. One workaround is to get the Bundle-Lingua-Stem.zip archive from http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/bundles/, which contains the Lingua-Stem ppm package and all of it's dependencies. Unpack this to some directory, add this directory to your list of ppm repositories as 
    ppm rep add temp_repository  
       file://C:/Path/to/current/directory

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    and then run something like the following in that directory: 
    use strict;
opendir(my $dir, '.');
my @ppds = grep {/\.ppd$/} readdir $dir;
closedir $dir;
foreach my $p (@ppds) {
   my @args = ('ppm', 'install', $p, '--nodeps');
   print "@args\n";
   system (@args);
}

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    This will use ppm to install all the packages without worrying about the dependencies; it'll fail on the Lingua-Stem-Snowball-Da package for the reason you found, but at least the others will get installed.
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      randyk,

      That worked like a charm. Thank you!
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Re: Lingua::Stem install woe
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 16, 2007 at 07:22 UTC
    You should report that to the authors of Lingua-Stem-Snowball-Da, Snowball-Norwegian and Snowball-Swedish.

    stemmer.pl gets installed in the wrong place because they don't include 

     WriteMakefile (
EXE_FILES => [ 'stemmer.pl' ],

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    in their Makefile.PL
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