Active State PerlLocal PPM Archive

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

Hello All,

I have asked this question in many places but have never received any reply.

In my home, I do not have an internet connection. so from a internet connected PC I copied a lot of usefull PPM files into a CD. Now I want to register the CD as a PPM archive using PPM3.

When I issue the command
rep add "G:\ppm"
I got the error message

Can't locate object method "host" via package "URI::_foreign" (perhaps you forgot to load "URI::_for eign"?) at C:/Perl/site/lib/PPM/Repository/Local.pm line 18, <FIN> line 1.

Please help me. and pardon me if this is the wrong place to ask this. I did go the the perl mailing list of active state but there was absolute silense on this question.

regards,
Abhishek.

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Re: Active State PerlLocal PPM Archive by strat (Canon) on Jun 27, 2002 at 10:10 UTC
Very often, I download the modules as zip's from http://www.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/5xx-builds-only/ or http://www.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/6xx-builds-only/ (e.g. with lwp-rget --limit=10000 --hier --depth=2 http://url, unpack them (e.g. with the winzip shell extensions) and install them in the shell the following way: `ppm install Modulename.ppd` [download] (or under WinNT/2k/XP even all with: `for %i in (x:\as-packages\.ppd) do ppm install %i 2>1 >> install.log` [download] ) Best regards, perl -e "s>>F>e=>y)\*martinF)stronat)=>print,print v8.8.8.32.11.32"	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Active State PerlLocal PPM Archive by rdfield (Priest) on Jun 27, 2002 at 09:07 UTC
Did you copy the PPDs too? rdfield	[reply]