in reply to Installing DBI

You probable need to tell ppm somehow that you want to use a proxy (perhaps on port 8080) to fetch stuff from internet. Ask your system admin about the hostname & port of the proxy. If you call ppm without any options, it might display a help text.

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Re: Re: Installing DBI
by JamesNC (Chaplain) on Jan 29, 2003 at 20:29 UTC
    Jaap is right on... here is what you enter at the cmd prompt (substitute your server and port for myproxy:8080): HTTP_proxy=http://myproxy.com:8080
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