(Windows 10) Trying to Install Perl Modules both PPM and CPAN fail?

Question

Currently running strawberry perl (latest release fresh install) on windows 10

This is what I get when I try running PPM

PS C:\> ppm
Attempt to reload Compress/Raw/Zlib.pm aborted.
Compilation failed in require at C:/Strawberry/perl/vendor/lib/Archive/Zip.pm line 9.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/Strawberry/perl/vendor/lib/Archive/Zip.pm line 9.
Compilation failed in require at C:/Strawberry/perl/vendor/lib/PPM.pm line 30.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/Strawberry/perl/vendor/lib/PPM.pm line 30.
Compilation failed in require at C:\Strawberry\perl\bin\ppm.bat line 22.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:\Strawberry\perl\bin\ppm.bat line 22.

This is what I get when I try running cpan

PS C:\> cpan install PadWalker
CPAN: CPAN::SQLite loaded ok (v0.219)
Database was generated on Wed, 25 Nov 2020 19:37:48 GMT
Running install for module 'PadWalker'

  CPAN: checksum security checks disabled because Digest::SHA not installed.
  Please consider installing the Digest::SHA module.

'" "' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
CPAN: Archive::Tar loaded ok (v1.60)


CPAN.pm needs either the external programs tar and gzip -or- both
modules Archive::Tar and Compress::Zlib installed.

For tar I found nothing, for gzip nothing.

For Archive::Tar I found '', for Compress::Zlib nothing;

Can't continue cutting file 'C:\STRAWB~1\cpan\sources\authors\id\R\RO\ROBIN\PadWalker-2.5.tar.gz'.
CPAN: YAML::XS loaded ok (v0.82)
  ROBIN/PadWalker-2.5.tar.gz
  Had problems unarchiving. Please build manually
Stopping: 'install' failed for 'PadWalker'.

my perl -v in case thats useful to anyone

PS C:\> perl -v
This is perl 5, version 32, subversion 0 (v5.32.0) built for MSWin32-x64-multi-thread

Anyone have any experience with this at all? I tried looking up some related issues on the errors I was getting but didn't find anything really useful.

Thanks!

Answer 1

@Clamp provided the correct solution by just completely deleting the Strawberry directory and doing a fresh install. Seemed as though there were two different versions conflicting.

I'd suggest deleting C:\Strawberry and install to a clean directory. – clamp Nov 25 '20 at 23:01

(Windows 10) Trying to Install Perl Modules both PPM and CPAN fail?