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

Dear Monks,

What administrator privileges do I need to download and install modules in Perl while on a Windows XP box? I don't have problems with my Windows 2000 Professional box, so why I have with XP I don't know. IT support is telling me that the privileges are the same for the two boxes.

Update: It appears that the new ppm tool will work with the ActiveState Perl on Win XP, but the cpan command line will not.
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Re: XP vs Win 2000 - installing modules - rights
by marto (Cardinal) on Oct 20, 2009 at 12:01 UTC

    Perhaps you could give us an example of the 'problems' you are experiencing, you know, what you are trying to do, error messages you recieve? Have you read the documentation of the Perl distribution you are using, or for PPM or cpan?

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      This sort of thing when I try to install a module. 
      

  RCLAMP/Text-Glob-0.08.tar.gz
  nmake -- NOT OK
Warning (usually harmless): 'YAML' not installed, will not store persi
+stent stat
e
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
Running make for M/ME/MERLYN/File-Finder-0.53.tar.gz
  Has already been unwrapped into directory C:\Perl\cpan\build\File-Fi
+nder-0.53-
h3x2hk

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        nmake -- NOT OK

        So it seems you have no nmake installed. Is that correct? If yes, install it, and try again.

        Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.
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        Do you have nmake installed?

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        configure cpan..its a easiest way to install modules

        c:\> perl -MCPAN -e shell

        type 'help' in the cpan shell

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Re: XP vs Win 2000 - installing modules - rights
by biohisham (Priest) on Oct 20, 2009 at 13:13 UTC
    To be frank, I wasn't aware that Windows XP had anything to do with security and privileges since the administration account is hidden , most probably out of my ignorance. But are you logging in as the Administrator, have you tried to install to a local directory in case not? What Perl version or flavor is it you are using?

    Update: I have been using ActiveState Perl and their Perl Package Manager utility effectively, these two links can help Downloading CPAN modules on WIndows.... and How to install a CPAN module. First, try to install through the ppm by invoking the command ppm-shell from the console and in there typing "ppm>install ModuleName". This might even be quicker than having to install a tar.gz file and compiling it yourself. Let me know what comes of it...

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      As below. 
      
U:\>perl -v

This is perl, v5.10.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2007, Larry Wall

Binary build 1001 [283495] provided by ActiveState http://www.ActiveSt
+ate.com
Built Dec 18 2007 08:46:15

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
+ or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source ki
+t.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found 
+on
this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl".  If you have access to
+ the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Pa
+ge.


U:\>

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        This is an old build of ActiveState Perl, if you look at the change log significant changes have been made since this build. Is there a particular reason you are using using this old version? Newer builds have bug fixes and added functionality to make your life easier. If possible I'd suggest you download and install the latest version.

        Update: s/significat/significant/

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