[Dxspider-support] Help Needed: New install on WinXP

[Iain Philipps]

Dave,

This isn't something that I've encountered before, so we are fishing in the 
dark a little.

It *smells* like a privilege issue. The user you're logged (into XP) as has 
Administrator privs?

(Ther's nothing wrong with the version of Perl you're using, BTW .....)


Regards     -     Iain

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Hawes" <dave.n3rd at comcast.net>
To: <dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 3:48 PM
Subject: [Dxspider-support] Help Needed: New install on WinXP


> One of the locals here in the Philadelphia area had his machine go
> belly up, so we are trying to install DX Spider on a brand new Win XP
> box.
>
> I installed an older version of Perl, namely v5.6.1, build 633.  At
> the c: prompt, I type:
>
> perl -v
>
> with the following results:
>
> This is perl, v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
> (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)
>
> Copyright 1987-2001, Larry Wall
>
> Binary build 633 provided by ActiveState Corp.
> http://www.ActiveState.com
> Built 21:33:05 Jun 17 2002
>
> So far, so good.  I then proceed to attempt to load the additional
> modules, again using the same versions of the five necessary as are
> currently being used on other machines running 5.6.1/633.  This is
> where I get an error that I can't seem to work around.  When I type:
>
> cd:\ppm
> ppm install Data-Dumper.ppd
>
> but instead of installing the package, I get this error message:
>
> Installing package 'Data-Dumper.ppd'...
> Writing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Data\Dumper\.packlist
> Error installing package 'Data-Dumper.ppd': Can't open file
> C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Data\Dumper\.packlist: Permission denied at
> C:/Perl/lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 167
>
> The very same message is displayed for each of the five additional
> packages that are needed, so I'm stuck at this point in the
> installation process.
>
> It seems like an attempt is being made to write a file, but access is
> denied.
>
> So, what to do?  Is this a Windows XP security/sharing problem, and
> if so, how do I get around it?
>
> Should I bail out on the older version/build and go with the latest
> from ActiveState?  (I tried that before, but there doesn't seem to be
> a version of DB_File out there any longer.)
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> 73 - Dave N3RD
>
>
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