[Catalyst] Installing Catalyst 5.61 on WinXP

[Will Hawes]

Sebastian Riedel wrote:
> 
> Am 07.12.2005 um 14:30 schrieb Will Hawes:
> 
>> Maurice Height wrote:
>>> I cannot upgrade Catalyst to v5.61.  My setup is WinXP/ActivePerl 
>>> v5.8.7 Build 815.
>>> I originally installed Catalyst using ppm and Bundle-Catalyst v0.06.
>>> However when I try to update Catalyst v5.61 with ppm I get the 
>>> following:
>>>  -----------------------------------------
>>>  ppm> install Catalyst -force
>>> Note: Package 'Catalyst' is already installed.
>>> ====================
>>> Install 'Path-Class' version 0.13 in ActivePerl 5.8.6.811.
>>> ====================
>>> Downloaded 21689 bytes.
>>> Extracting 31/31: blib
>>> Successfully installed Path-Class version 0.13 in ActivePerl 5.8.6.811.
>>> ====================
>>> Install 'File-Copy-Recursive' version 0.16 in ActivePerl 5.8.6.811.
>>> ====================
>>> Downloaded 7372 bytes.
>>> Extracting 5/5: blib/arch/auto/File/Copy/Recursive/.exists
>>> Successfully installed File-Copy-Recursive version 0.16 in ActivePerl 
>>> 5.8.6.811.
>>> ====================
>>> Install 'MIME-Types' version 1.16 in ActivePerl 5.8.6.811.
>>> ====================
>>> Downloaded 15212 bytes.
>>> Extracting 9/9: blib/arch/auto/MIME/Types/.exists
>>> Installing C:\Perl\html\site\lib\MIME\Type.html
>>> Installing C:\Perl\html\site\lib\MIME\Types.html
>>> Successfully installed MIME-Types version 1.16 in ActivePerl 5.8.6.811.
>>> ====================
>>> Install 'Exporter-Lite' version 0.01 in ActivePerl 5.8.6.811.
>>> ====================
>>> Downloaded 2315 bytes.
>>> Extracting 4/4: blib/arch/auto/Exporter/Lite/.exists
>>> Successfully installed Exporter-Lite version 0.01 in ActivePerl 
>>> 5.8.6.811.
>>> ====================
>>> Install 'UNIVERSAL-exports' version 0.03 in ActivePerl 5.8.6.811.
>>> ====================
>>> Downloaded 2286 bytes.
>>> Extracting 5/5: blib/arch/auto/UNIVERSAL/exports/.exists
>>> Successfully installed UNIVERSAL-exports version 0.03 in ActivePerl 
>>> 5.8.6.811.
>>> ====================
>>> Install 'Module-Pluggable-Fast' version 0.16 in ActivePerl 5.8.6.811.
>>> ====================
>>> Downloaded 2447 bytes.
>>> Extracting 5/5: blib/arch/auto/Module/Pluggable/Fast/.exists
>>> Successfully installed Module-Pluggable-Fast version 0.16 in 
>>> ActivePerl 5.8.6.811.
>>> ====================
>>> Install 'File-Modified' version 0.07 in ActivePerl 5.8.6.811.
>>> ====================
>>> Downloaded 5122 bytes.
>>> Extracting 5/5: blib/arch/auto/File/Modified/.exists
>>> Successfully installed File-Modified version 0.07 in ActivePerl 
>>> 5.8.6.811.
>>> Error: Package 'libwww-perl' not found. Please 'search' for it first.
>>> ppm>
>>>  -----------------------------------------
>>>  However ppm reports libwww-perl is installed:
>>> ppm> query libwww-perl
>>> Querying target 1 (ActivePerl 5.8.7.815)
>>> 1.       libwww-perl [5.803.0.1] Web API for Perl
>>>  Any suggestions?
>>>  Maurice
>>
>> The ActiveState web site confirms what Andy says:
>>
>> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Modules/dist_html?dist_id=10068
>>
>> I've just managed to upgrade using cpanp as follows:
>>
>> cpanp> s conf force 1
>> cpanp> i LWP
>> cpanp> i Catalyst
>>
>> You get a mass of failed tests (only 3.63% of the live tests pass), 
>> but all seems OK.
> 
> Seems to be a broken nmake, i've seen this before, nothing to worry 
> about...
> 
> -- 
> sebastian
> 

When you say a "broken nmake", that implies there is a non-broken one 
somewhere. I'm only aware of a download for nmake 1.5 - is there a more 
recent one?