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

Since the Active state site won't let me post for some dumb reason I thought I would ask this here. everytime I try to search for a module/package with PPM it tells me: bad command or file name Error : connect : unknown error I am spelling search right so I know that's not it- My computer goes through a proxy but I set up the appropriate lines in the autoexec.bat file. Anyone know what's up?

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Re: Help with Active state PPM
by DigitalKitty (Parson) on Nov 14, 2002 at 19:22 UTC
    Hi Anoymous Monk,

    Can you use ppm3? Or change your repository to:
    http://ppm.ActiveState.com/cgibin/PPM/ppmserver.pl?urn:/PPMServer

    I have received a similar error and when I use ppm3, it ceased to exist.
    Hope this helps,
    -Katie.
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Re: Help with Active state PPM
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Nov 15, 2002 at 14:36 UTC
    While I've never personally run into that problem, i'd like to remind you not to forget that ppm(or ppm3) is merely a frontend to the PPM module, and you're a perl programmer ain't you? ;) 
    use PPM;
use Data::Dumper;
my $lookFor = qr/Acme/i;
my $rep = q[http://ppm.ActiveState.com/cgibin/PPM/ppmserver.pl?urn:/PP
+MServer];
my(undef,$packagelist) = PPM::RepositoryPackages(location=>$rep);

#warn Dumper($ppp);

for my $p( grep /^$lookFor/, @$packagelist ) {
    print "Do you want to install $p? [y/N] ";
    my $a = <STDIN>;
    if($a =~ /y/i) {
       PPM::InstallPackage(package=> $p, location => $rep )
    }
}
__END__

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    update: so uncomment the line #use Data::Dumper *sheesh*

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      I am using PPM3, that is my repositroy, and I don't have Data::dumper and without the package manager...
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