in reply to A Small Question.

To install a package from a different location, you can give it a fully qualified path name or URL. For example, to install Agent.ppd from the 5.005 directory on the ActiveState server, type in 
install http://www.activestate.com/PPMPackages/5.005/Agent.ppd

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(Guildenstern) RE: (Ovid - Installing packages with PPM) Re: A Small Question.
by Guildenstern (Deacon) on Sep 20, 2000 at 19:36 UTC
    Not really. I just tried that exact line, and PPM complained about not being able to find a "PPM binary for this platform". I tried this with the Net-Daemon package that Billy was trying to install, and got the same problems. I unzipped the Net-Daemon package, and it looks like it's all Perl code, but PPM still won't let it be installed.

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