Perhaps you need to configure PPM to deal with any proxy/firewall you have in place. If you run ppm from the command line and manually try to install any module do you get the same error? See Using PPM and A guide to installing modules for Win32 from the tutorials section of this site.
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Or... install Strawberry Perl and use CPAN?
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Well this is another option, however we have no idea if the effort of changing Perl distributions is worth the pay off, since the problem seems to be with installing two modules (and perhaps their prerequisites), the OP has not stated how many other running Perl scripts/services there are on this system, or if their system administrators will allow this. It may be that changing distributions is not a viable option at this point.
While I am a big fan of Strawberry Perl, I use it at work a lot, I feel that in these circumstance it may be overkill to suggest changing distributions for what is essentially a small configuration problem.
Thanks
Martin
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From your reference to a gui popping up (in a subthread above), I gather you're using ppm4 which has occasionally given me problems too (even when properly proxied and allowed past a firewall. The most common of these semi-random glitches, however, is ppm's erroneous conclusion that a module is already installed.
You might want to see (I don't know for sure, but believe you can) if you can revert to ppm3; alternately, read marto's advice on repositories above or tanktalus' excellent Yes, even you can use CPAN and holli's A guide to installing modules for Win32. | [reply] |
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