Re: CPANM installs fail

[Athanasius]

Hello wrkrbeee,

Since you’re running Strawberry Perl, you must be on Windows. Now, you should be aware that some modules run only on Unix-based systems, so before attempting an install it’s a good idea to check the CPAN Testers Matrix to see whether the module is Windows-friendly. For example, the Expect module’s Matrix shows that Expect does not install under Windows.

In other cases, a module which previously installed without problem will be released in a new version which fails one or more of its tests under Windows (but not on other platforms). In such cases, you may need to do some detective work to ascertain whether the problem is with the module itself or only with the tests. In the latter case, you can safely force-install the module.

I'm running an older version of Perl (5.14.2), perhaps a newer version would help? Where would I find a newer version?

Very likely a newer version of Perl will help. My best advice is to install one of the Strawberry Perl PortableZIP editions, which are available for download from http://strawberryperl.com/releases.html. You can have any number of these installed on your system at the same time, because they won’t interfere with each other or with the system Perl. Then you can try installing the problem modules and see if the newer Perl version solves the problem.

Hope that helps,