look below: $ CPAN
cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.61) ReadLine support enabled cpan> install HTML::TableExtract CPAN: Storable loaded ok -blabla- CPAN.pm: Going to build M/MS/MSISK/HTML-TableExtract-1.08.tar.gz Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Unable to find a perl 5 (by these names: /usr/bin/perl.exe perl.exe perl5.exe pe rl5.8.0.exe miniperl.exe, in these dirs: /usr/local/bin /usr/bin /bin /cygdrive/ c/PROGRA~1/MKSTOO~1/bin /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/MKSTOO~1/bin/X11 /cygdrive/c/PROGRA ~1/MKSTOO~1/mksnt /cygdrive/c/arh /cygdrive/c/nusphere/perl/bin /cygdrive/c/nusp here/mysql/bin /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32 /cygdrive/c/WINNT /cygdrive/c/WINNT/Sy stem32/Wbem /cygdrive/c/Program Files/SecureCRT 3.0 /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Ex ecutive Software/DiskeeperWorkstation/ /cygdrive/c /usr/bin) Warning: I could not locate your pod2man program. Please make sure, your pod2man program is in your PATH before you execute 'make' $ whereis make C:\cygwin\bin/make.exe C:\cygwin\bin/make.exe $ whereis perl C:\cygwin\bin/perl.exe C:\cygwin\bin/perl.exe ----------------------------------------- so I was trying to install a new module for perl... the problem seems to be with the cygwin versions greater than 1.3.14!! if I install that older version, all is ok. Please check out what is wrong. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/