I made a build including all packages I will need. Got the link, then did C:\Users\sale>powershell -Command "& $([scriptblock]::Create((New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadString(‘https://platform.activestate.com/dl/cli/pdli01/install.ps1’))) -activate-default sale21/Perl-5.34.0-Windows1"
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Running state activate --default sale21/Perl-5.34.0-Windows1
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So I tried again with the --force flag and again no luck:
C:\Users\sale>powershell -Command “& $([scriptblock]::Create((New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadString(‘https://platform.activestate.com/dl/cli/pdli01/install.ps1’))) -activate-default sale21/Perl-5.34.0-Windows1” --force
• Preparing Installer for State Tool Package Manager…√ Done
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Hi @sale21, I wonder if you might have a firewall or some other type of network filter (eg. a proxy) configured that might be interfering. Could you run set VERBOSE=true in your command prompt and then run the one liner again? Then share the FULL output.
This should hopefully give us more information about why it’s unable to retrieve the package information.
I’m having the very same issue: “Could not retrieve install package information”.
There is a proxy in place (as there normally would be) but all https otherwise does work ok. Please see attached a snippet of the log with verbose set to true.
