Hi, I am a complete Perl noob and my experience of scripting is limited to some R data analysis. My cmd-line-fu is virtually non-existent. I have been trying to run a perl program I downloaded for proteomics analysis, however it requires that I install two non-CPAN packages (included in the download). My laptop runs Windows 8.1, and the Perl distribution I have installed is DwimPerl. My problem is that I have been unable to install the two required packages from my local hard drive. I have the .pm files, and I have created .tar.gz files from them. I have been able to create a local repository which contains a package folder with homemade .PPD files where the HREF address points to an x86 subfolder which contains the .tar.gz files. However, the packages are not detected by PPM. Is there something I am missing?

In reply to local packages in windows by Arthfael

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