Trouble installing Tk using ppm.

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I'm using ActiveState;s perl 5.6.0 build and I seem to be unable to install the Tk module ( my manager is insisting on my using a win32 machine ). Here is my error msg:

C:\>ppm
PPM interactive shell (2.1.5) - type 'help' for available commands.
PPM> install Tk
Installing package 'Tk'...
Error installing package 'Tk': Could not locate a PPD file for package
+ Tk
PPM>
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Re: Trouble installing a module using ppm. by crazyinsomniac (Prior) on Apr 27, 2002 at 23:54 UTC
I used to get that error message, and my solution, was to always "search" for a module before I install it. `ppm> search Tk` [download] If that doesn't work, it usually means I've used ppm3 before, which usually messes up my ppm set up, so I check, by typing `ppm>set rep` [download] to see what kind of repositories I have set up, and it usually tells me I have none, so I issue `ppm>set rep default http://www.ActiveState.com/cgibin/PPM/ppmserver.pl +ex?urn:/PPMServer` [download] which is the default PPM package repository after which i `ppm> search Tk` [download] again , at which point everything is back to normal and I can safely `ppm>install Tk` [download] which usually ( %95 of the time ) works.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Trouble installing Tk using ppm. by redemption (Sexton) on May 22, 2002 at 08:50 UTC
get the Tk module from ActiveState, unzip it, and then do a `$ ppm install Tk.ppd` at your shell. Sometimes PPM doesn't work but this method definitely does.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Trouble installing Tk using ppm. by jdavidboyd (Friar) on Jul 07, 2002 at 19:49 UTC
Upgrade to ActiveState Perl 5.6.1, as it comes with Tk already installed.	[reply]