Unable to install Finance:Quote

[John Ralls]

On Mar 3, 2014, at 2:42 PM, David <spam at 747skipper.co.uk> wrote:

> On 03/03/2014 22:37, John Ralls wrote:
>> On Mar 3, 2014, at 1:49 PM, Erik Colson <eco at ecocode.net>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> David <spam at 747skipper.co.uk>
>>>  writes:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Pastenbin link http://pastebin.com/bkmFDWMm
>>> Hi David,
>>> 
>>> Seems installing the prerequisite File::ShareDir::Install failed on your
>>> system. Perhaps you should install it directly from Activestate
>>> repository. You can issue the command-line install right from the
>>> command-line as mentioned here:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> http://code.activestate.com/ppm/File-ShareDir-Install/
>> Except that he’s using Strawberry, not ActiveState.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
>> 
> Hi John
> Thanks for your comments, as you may have seen Erik's idea worked.
> Just for the record I tried ActiveState's latest 5.18?? earlier but with the same problem the financee:Quote package failed at, what appeared to be, the end of the install.
> This time I have seen even more lines flashing up and many were ones I had not seen before so perhaps it actually crashed much earlier.
> Anyone care to recommend a good place to read up what Perl is and how it  works? 
> I'm beginning to get interested.
> 
> Thanks again to you both

http://www.perl.org/ is its home, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl might be a more gentle introduction.

Regards,
John Ralls