The apprentice, having struggled to most of the day, finally caves and begs for help:

I'm trying to get my local copy of ActiveState 5.6 to work properly with the CPAN module. I've obtained nmake, gzip, tar, and all the utilities. Here's what I'm getting:

cpan> install Bundle::CPAN
Going to read \devt\perl\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt.gz
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok
Going to read \devt\perl\cpan\sources\modules\02packages.details.txt.g
+z
Scanning cache \devt\perl\cpan\build\. for sizes
Going to read \devt\perl\cpan\sources\modules\03modlist.data.gz
CPAN: MD5 loaded ok
Checksum for \devt\perl\cpan\sources\authors\id\A\AN\ANDK\CPAN-1.59.ta
+r.gz ok
Package comes without Makefile.PL.
  Writing one on our own (calling it unknown)
MANIFEST: No such file or directory at C:/devt/perl/lib/ExtUtils/Manif
+est.pm lin
e 132.
Added to MANIFEST: MANIFEST
Added to MANIFEST: Makefile.PL
Couldn't find a Bundle file in \devt\perl\cpan\build\ANDK004\. at C:/d
+evt/perl/l
ib/CPAN.pm line 1806
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I think that last line is instructive, but I'm not getting it. Can someone clarify?

FWIW, The same command works on my BSD 4.0 box. I suspect I'm either missing something or have not configured CPAN.pm properly. If the latter, I need a hint.

I know PPM is supposed to work, but AS does not currently provide PPD's for File::CounterFile or AppConfig, two modules I'm trying to use.

Any and all (useful) suggestions welcome.

--f