Re^3: Erroe while installing packages from PPM in windows

This is what i am getting in PPM Tool

XML-DOM depends on XML-RegExp
Installing 3 packages ...
Downloading XML-DOM-1.44 ... done
Downloading libxml-perl-0.08 ... done
Downloading XML-RegExp-0.03 ... done
Unpacking XML-DOM-1.44 ... failed

ERROR: Can't extract files from C:\DOCUME~1\jhuang\LOCALS~1\Temp\ppm-kDP3uZ/XML-DOM-1.44.tgz

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Re^4: Erroe while installing packages from PPM in windows by Anonymous Monk on Mar 16, 2012 at 19:40 UTC
my guess would be this is not a ppm install issue but rather a windows file permissions problem. if youre trying this on vista, or newer, make sure you launch your cmd.exe window so its title bar reads 'administrator...' before you try the command. fastest way for me to type how to achieve this is to browse to your system32 folder, right-click 'cmd.exe' then pick 'run as administrator'. then cd to your perl/bin directory and run the command. when you launch your app as the 'true administrator', likely any file permissions problem you were having will hopefully go away. if not, you shoudl check the permissions of the user folder where the file is being copied to and then unpacked from...	[reply]

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Re^4: Erroe while installing packages from PPM in windows
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 16, 2012 at 19:40 UTC

my guess would be this is not a ppm install issue but rather a windows file permissions problem. if youre trying this on vista, or newer, make sure you launch your cmd.exe window so its title bar reads 'administrator...' before you try the command. fastest way for me to type how to achieve this is to browse to your system32 folder, right-click 'cmd.exe' then pick 'run as administrator'. then cd to your perl/bin directory and run the command. when you launch your app as the 'true administrator', likely any file permissions problem you were having will hopefully go away. if not, you shoudl check the permissions of the user folder where the file is being copied to and then unpacked from...

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