how to install an CPAN module through PPM

[vijayarl]

Hi everyone,

Requirement:
Am trying to install the CPAN module : Spreadsheet::Excelsheet through PPM
i have downloaded the Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.33.tar.gz file & uncompress it

Problem:

i have followed the steps mention in the [HTML]http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/perl/pod/perlmodinstall.html [/HTML] for Win2k OS.

In this document it says, if PPM is installed the we can installed the required module through it.

i type the ppm in the cmd prompt, then i get an ppm window.
now my question is how to use this utility to install the required module ??

Note:

Even i tried to install the CPAN module without PPM utility but after pasting all the files in \perl\lib folder

i typed perl -e 'print "@INC"' in cmd prompt,but i got this result :

C:\Perl\bin>perl -e 'print "@INC"'
Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.

can anyone let me know where am doing the mistake ? and the procedure to install the above said CPAN module as i need to use this module in my perl script.

Thanks,
Vijayarl

[nithinpes]

On Windows, the commands passed in perl one-liners should be within double-quotes and not single-quotes as in Linux.
You may have to escape other double quotes that are used inside command statement.

perl -e "print \"@INC\" "
 

To install CPAN module through PPM, enter ppm in the command prompt. You will get ppm> prompt (if you are using version older than 5.8, else a GUI).
To search for modules/ install them:

ppm> search <module name> 
ppm> i <module name> 
 

The module will be downloaded and installed.

[KevinADC]

now my question is how to use this utility to install the required module ??

If you have activeperl installed, the PPM instructions are in the activestate/activeperl folder. But you can't use PPM unless the module was made to be installed using PPM, which if you downloaded it from CPAN its not. You can use it via the "lib" pragma. Read the "lib" pragma page on the perldoc website or on your local install of activeperl.;

[numberwhun]

Or, you could uninstall that Active State stuff, download and install Strawberry Perl and get to installing modules the way that they were meant to be installed. :)

Sorry, I hate AS and their proprietary PPM with complete lack of support for ALL CPAN modules.

Regards,

Jeff