note ikegami <blockquote><p><i>That's how things are with Strawberry—just use CPAN and things Just Work.</i></blockquote> <p>Same with ActiveState. Like I above, <c>cpan Module</c>. It'll install dmake and mingw if no compiler is found. <blockquote><p><i>With ActiveState, unless they've changed things in the past two years, you need to have Visual C and nmake installed (which I don't)</i></blockquote> <p>You don't need this, but it's a free one-click install if you want to use it. <blockquote><p><i>AS does have ppm,but—at least the version I have (5.10)—it's horrible.</i></blockquote> <p>I used ppm with 5.10 for a long time. It's great. I rarely had to leave it. Are you just using the AS repo, or did you check the others? 858805 858821