ActiveState Perl comes with Win32::OLE:

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Q:\>perl -MWin32::OLE -e1

Q:\>
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So whatever you're trying to do, you're doing it wrong somehow. Most likely, the Perl you're starting is not the ActiveState Perl but the Linux Perl.

I already suggested using CIM, as also is suggested in the documentation of DBD::WMI.

As I found, Strawberry Perl does not come with Win32::OLE - I have to fix that, because Win32::OLE is (besides Win32::API) one of the important modules to have on Win32.

I don't think activestate perl for linux comes with win32 modules (excluded from build)

Ah - this would explain the confusion then. I was talking about ActiveState Perl for Windows, to be run under Wine. The OP seems to have installed ActiveState Perl for Linux, which can't use Win32::OLE for the (to me) obvious reason that Win32::OLE can only work on Windows or maybe on a Windowss emulator.