On Oct 29, 8:49 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Esposito) wrote: . . > The CPAN.pm method to install the Spreadsheet::WriteExcel module just plainly > 'times out' from what I would guess is a firewall issue. And when I download > the .tar.gz file for Spreadsheet::WriteExcel and try to unzip I get an error.
You need to 'gzip -d' a tar.gz, not 'unzip' it. A utility like WinZip should automatically handle both tar.gz and zip archives correctly. > > Please advise as to how I can install the Spreadsheet::WriteExcel module on > WindowsXP. > Thanks in advance. I prefer to use the command line for running ppm (rather than the gui app). For perl-5.10: ppm install Spreadsheet-WriteExcel For perl-5.8: ppm install http://trouchelle.com/ppm/Spreadsheet-WriteExcel.ppd For perl-5.8, you might first need to run: http://trouchelle.com/ppm/OLE-Storage_Lite.ppd that's if you don't already have it and it's not available from the ActiveState repo. Probably simplest to just add the trouchelle repo to your list of repos, as then it's just a matter of running: ppm install Spreadsheet-WriteExcel Cheers, Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
