Nedzad G has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

When I try to install a mod_perl-2.0.ppd I am getting this error:

ppm install failed: 500 Can't connect to theoryx5.unwinnipeg.ca:80 (nodename nor servername provided, or not know)

I am using Active perl version 5.24.3. Can anyone help to fix this ?

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Re: mod_perl-2.0.ppd installation failed
by huck (Prior) on May 25, 2018 at 07:39 UTC

    Where did theoryx5.unwinnipeg.ca come from? is it specified on the command line? was it added somehow to your list of repositories? We need to know the whole command you used that resulted in this error.

    It seems that is a typo, and it should be theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca, but not knowing how you got this error message we cannot tell you what to do to fix it either

    and this seems real similar to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50505785/installation-mod-perl-2-0-ppd-via-perl-ppm-package, while cross posting is ok, it is considered polite to mention it.

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      Error message is from command line. Used command:

      ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/mod_perl-2.0.ppd

      Any idea how to fix ?
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        If you test the URL in your browser, it's unreachable. Perhaps this repository no longer exists. Try contacting your vendor ActiveState, they should have repos you could use. There's also PPM::Repositories, but at first glance it doesn't look up to date, you'd need to find a repository or just build from source rather than use PPM.

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