[Catalyst] Installing Catalyst 5.61 on WinXP

[Will Hawes]

Maurice Height wrote:
> I cannot upgrade Catalyst to v5.61.  My setup is WinXP/ActivePerl v5.8.7 
> Build 815.
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> I originally installed Catalyst using ppm and Bundle-Catalyst v0.06.
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> However when I try to update Catalyst v5.61 with ppm I get the following:
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> ppm> install Catalyst -force
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> Note: Package 'Catalyst' is already installed.
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> ====================
> 
> Install 'Path-Class' version 0.13 in ActivePerl 5.8.6.811.
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> ====================
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> Downloaded 21689 bytes.
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> Extracting 31/31: blib
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> Successfully installed Path-Class version 0.13 in ActivePerl 5.8.6.811.
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> ====================
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> Install 'File-Copy-Recursive' version 0.16 in ActivePerl 5.8.6.811.
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> ====================
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> Downloaded 7372 bytes.
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> Extracting 5/5: blib/arch/auto/File/Copy/Recursive/.exists
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> Successfully installed File-Copy-Recursive version 0.16 in ActivePerl 
> 5.8.6.811.
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> ====================
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> Install 'MIME-Types' version 1.16 in ActivePerl 5.8.6.811.
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> ====================
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> Downloaded 15212 bytes.
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> Extracting 9/9: blib/arch/auto/MIME/Types/.exists
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> Installing C:\Perl\html\site\lib\MIME\Type.html
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> Installing C:\Perl\html\site\lib\MIME\Types.html
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> Successfully installed MIME-Types version 1.16 in ActivePerl 5.8.6.811.
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> ====================
> 
> Install 'Exporter-Lite' version 0.01 in ActivePerl 5.8.6.811.
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> ====================
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> Downloaded 2315 bytes.
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> Extracting 4/4: blib/arch/auto/Exporter/Lite/.exists
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> Successfully installed Exporter-Lite version 0.01 in ActivePerl 5.8.6.811.
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> ====================
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> Install 'UNIVERSAL-exports' version 0.03 in ActivePerl 5.8.6.811.
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> ====================
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> Downloaded 2286 bytes.
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> Extracting 5/5: blib/arch/auto/UNIVERSAL/exports/.exists
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> Successfully installed UNIVERSAL-exports version 0.03 in ActivePerl 
> 5.8.6.811.
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> ====================
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> Install 'Module-Pluggable-Fast' version 0.16 in ActivePerl 5.8.6.811.
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> ====================
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> Downloaded 2447 bytes.
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> Extracting 5/5: blib/arch/auto/Module/Pluggable/Fast/.exists
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> Successfully installed Module-Pluggable-Fast version 0.16 in ActivePerl 
> 5.8.6.811.
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> ====================
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> Install 'File-Modified' version 0.07 in ActivePerl 5.8.6.811.
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> ====================
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> Downloaded 5122 bytes.
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> Extracting 5/5: blib/arch/auto/File/Modified/.exists
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> Successfully installed File-Modified version 0.07 in ActivePerl 5.8.6.811.
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> Error: Package 'libwww-perl' not found. Please 'search' for it first.
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> ppm>
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> However ppm reports libwww-perl is installed:
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> ppm> query libwww-perl
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> Querying target 1 (ActivePerl 5.8.7.815)
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> 1.       libwww-perl [5.803.0.1] Web API for Perl
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> Any suggestions?
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> 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.