I have been using ActiveState Perl successfully for many years. I have just upgraded to ActivePerl 5.20.1 for Windows 64-bit x64 (was using 5.16 before). My Perl programs that require no extra packages are still working fine, but now PPM is having problems installing packages, with some packages not found ("Error 404"). And strangely the problem is inconsistent. I tried repeatedly to install the DateTime package. Each time I try, it stops on not finding one or other of the 7 required packages for DateTime. For instance, in these two successive attempts, one the first time it could not find the DateTime package itself, but on the second attempt it found that one, but then could not find another package it needed: Params-Validate. On other attempts, this too succeeds and other packages such as List-AllUtils, or DateTime (again) is not found. Below is the contents of the PPM Status Window on first two attempts. I might add that my Internet connection is just fine, I am encountering no other problems. And I did a simple clean install of 5.20.1, using all defaults, and have repeatedly re-done a clean install from scratch, but with same results.
Anyone have a clue what is causing these inconsistent "not found" errors? And is there a log or other diagnostic tools I can use to see what actually is going wrong in the package downloads?
Martin.
PPM Status on two attempts to install DateTime:
DateTime marked for install
DateTime depends on DateTime-Locale
DateTime depends on Params-Validate
DateTime depends on DateTime-TimeZone
DateTime depends on Class-Singleton
DateTime depends on List-AllUtils
DateTime depends on DateTime-TimeZone-Local-Win32
Installing 7 packages ...
Downloading DateTime-1.12 ... not found
Installing 7 packages failed
ERROR: 404 Not Found
Installing 7 packages ...
Downloading DateTime-1.12 ... done
Downloading DateTime-Locale-0.45 ... done
Downloading Params-Validate-1.13 ... not found
Installing 7 packages failed
ERROR: 404 Not Found