in reply to Re: Installling of Modules
in thread Installling of Modules

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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Re: Re: Re: Installling of Modules
by naive (Novice) on Jan 31, 2002 at 04:00 UTC
    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.

      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'

        Hi thks for your reply.

        I typed search * and obtained the statement below
        "Searching in repository 1 (ActiveState Package Repository)
        The system cannot find the path specified"
        Anyone knows what the problem is?

        By the way my perl is installed in my secondary drive and the default for the ppm tempdir is in my primary drive does that matter ??