Installing Missing Modules

[AJR]

Hi,
    I am running windows XP and have Apache running on my localhost.  I am trying to install Docperl and I received the following messages when
running the checksetup.pl script via windows command prompt:

C:\Documents and Settings\radmaa\My Documents\Perl_Doc\docperl>
C:\Documents and Settings\radmaa\My Documents\Perl_Doc\docperl>checksetup.pl
Ignoring '!' modifier for short option p
Ignoring '!' modifier for short option s
Ignoring '!' modifier for short option v
Config::Std             Missing
File::Path              OK    1.0404
File::stat              Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or str
g at C:\Documents and Settings\radmaa\My Documents\Perl_Doc\docperl\checksetup
l line 88.
OK
Pod::POM                Missing
Readonly                Missing
Template                Missing
version                 Missing

To install all missing modules try the following commands:

$ cpan Config::Std Pod::POM Readonly Template version
or
$ perl -MCPAN -e 'install Config::Std'
$ perl -MCPAN -e 'install Pod::POM'
$ perl -MCPAN -e 'install Readonly'
$ perl -MCPAN -e 'install Template'
$ perl -MCPAN -e 'install version'

Windows/ActivePerl users try useing ppm

Config Exists

C:\Documents and Settings\radmaa\My Documents\Perl_Doc\docperl>

I tried issuing the commands to install the missing modules and the commands returned with the following
output:

C:\Documents and Settings\radmaa\My Documents\Perl_Doc\docperl>cpan Config::Std
Pod::POM Readonly Template version
'cpan' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Documents and Settings\radmaa\My Documents\Perl_Doc\docperl>

C:\Documents and Settings\radmaa\My Documents\Perl_Doc\docperl>perl -MCPAN -e 'i
nstall Config::Std'
Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.

C:\Documents and Settings\radmaa\My Documents\Perl_Doc\docperl>

Any advice would be appreciated

Thanks

[Ivan Wills]

Hi,

Are you using Active Perl? If so you can use PPM which comes with Active Perl and is usually found in the bin directory. Run in from the command line and it will open up a ppm prompt where you should be able to install the modules something like

PPM> install Config::Std

I'm not sure about the syntax as at the moment I don't have access to a Windows computer. Although I beleve PPM has a help command which you can run for more information on how to use it, also there does exist GUI interfaces to PPM the Windows Apache + Perl package comes with a Tk PPM installer but I don't know where to find it out side that package.

Ivan

PS If you still have problems I will have access to a windows computer in a day or two and will find out the exact commands to use.

[AJR]

Hi Ivan,

      Thanks for responding.  As it turns out, I was able to use PPM to install the modules  POD::POM,
Readonly, and Version.  However, when I attempt to use PPM to install Config::Std and Template, I get the
following messages:

PPM interactive shell (2.1.5) - type 'help' for available commands.
PPM> install Config::Std
Install package 'Config-Std?' (y/N): y
Installing package 'Config-Std'...
Error installing package 'Config-Std': Could not locate a PPD file for package C
onfig-Std
PPM>

PPM> install Template
Install package 'Template?' (y/N): y
Installing package 'Template'...
Error installing package 'Template': Could not locate a PPD file for package Tem
plate
PPM>

I was able to install the other modules by issuing the same commands, but for some reason I cannot install the two listed above.

In trying to brainstorm why this will not work, the only possibility I could think of is the fact that I am running Perl v5.6.1   

I'm not sure if this makes a difference or if DocPerl needs some later version of Perl.   I was looking through the documenation on the website which states that DocPerl requires Perl 5.6 or higher, so I didn't think that would be an issue.

Any light you can shed on this issue would be very helpful

     Thank you!

  -Arian