in reply to Installling of Modules

I suggest you preuse the ActivePerl FAQ on the subject. I will also point out that all of the documentation is also on your hard drive, in your c:\Perl\html\ directory (adjust for the loation of your perl install, of course). Said local documentation also includes the full FAQ and documentation for PPM. In brief, however, you will type ppm3 at a command prompt (I seem to remember it is in the Start menu as well), and type install Some::Module at the PPM prompt that you get. Far more detailed instructions and examples are in the FAQ.

perl -pe '"I lo*`+$^X$\"$]!$/"=~m%(.*)%s;$_=$1;y^`+*^e v^#$&V"+@( NO CARRIER'

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Re: Re: Installling of Modules
by dorko (Prior) on Jan 31, 2002 at 03:20 UTC
    It's worth pointing out at this point that once you get PPM running, you can type help for a list of options or you can type help install for help on install.

    Cheers!

    Brent

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      Thks for all your reply.

      But whenever I type install (package.ppd) I will get an error stating that it could not locate the ppd file for the package.Anyone knows what is the reason? I have also tried entering install URL/package.ppd but the same problem persist.

      Thks once again.

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        To clarify: You do not need to download anything in order to use PPM. It automatically fetches the ppd file from the server and installs it. An example; I run PPM from the Start Menu > Programs > Activestate ActivePerl 5.6 > Perl Package Manager. Then:

        PPM - Programmer's Package Manager version 3.0 beta 2.
        Copyright (c) 2001 ActiveState SRL. All Rights Reserved.

        Entering interactive shell. Using Term::ReadLine::Stub as readline library.

        Profile tracking is not enabled. If you save and restore profiles manually, your profile may be out of sync with your computer. See 'help profile' for more information.

        Type 'help' to get started.

        ppm> search *
        Searching in repository 2 (ActiveState Package Repository)
        Pages of text snipped -- find the package you want
        ppm> install Business-ISBN
        ====================
        Install 'Business-ISBN' version 20001010.0 in ActivePerl 630.
        ====================
        Downloaded 7688 bytes.
        Extracting package. This may take a few seconds.
        Extracting 19/19: blib/html/site/lib/Business/ISBN.html
        Installing C:\Perl\html\site\lib\Business\ISBN.html
        Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\Business\ISBN.pm
        Writing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Business\ISBN\.packlist
        ppm> exit

        ..and the package has been installed. That's all there is to it.

        perl -pe '"I lo*`+$^X$\"$]!$/"=~m%(.*)%s;$_=$1;y^`+*^e v^#$&V"+@( NO CARRIER'

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