install DBI ON WINDOWS 98

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

Hi all, I am in a little fix,I have Active Perl 5.8 installed in my Windows 98 and I have to install the DBI module ,I have tried using the ppm to do it,but it keeps giving the error cannot connect to ppm.ActiveState.com,can any body help out with this

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Re: install DBI ON WINDOWS 98 by Roger (Parson) on Feb 17, 2004 at 07:06 UTC
First of all, DBI should be already included in the Active Perl 5.8.x package (I thought?). Also I suspect that your (company) runs an internet proxy server? You need to configure the proxy environment variables to have PPM working properly if that's the case. Cut and paste the following into a small batch file, say, set_proxy.bat, and modify the values to suit your network. Run the set_proxy.bat to set the proxy environment variables in the future. Once this is done, the PPM should work happily I suspect. `@echo off set HTTP_proxy=http://proxy:3128 set HTTP_proxy_user=foo set HTTP_proxy_pass=bar` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: install DBI ON WINDOWS 98
by Roger (Parson) on Feb 17, 2004 at 07:06 UTC

@echo off
set HTTP_proxy=http://proxy:3128
set HTTP_proxy_user=foo
set HTTP_proxy_pass=bar
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