Hello all,

I have a bit of a problem. I'm stuck on a Win32 (Win98 SE) system and I just upgraded to ActivePerl v5.6.1 Build 633. Unfortunately, now that I've upgraded, I'm finding it impossible to install any modules with PPM or CPAN (I had the CPAN problem earlier... but... now I'm unable to install ANY modules, or even look at the one's that came by default.

I have traced the problem down to line 127 of PPM::Installer, but beyond that, I don't know what to do (no idea what that sub it's in is doing.)


This is the exact error it dies with:
ppm:ActivePerl > query *
Querying target 1 (ActivePerl 5.6.1.633)
Error: connect: Unknown error

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As can be seen in that, query crashes it, and so does search, and since both of those are necessary to install a module, I can't do anything... As for CPAN, it keeps freezing. I'll post below what exactley CPAN does but I can't actualy run it at the moment (It's convinced it's still running for some reason...)




My code doesn't have bugs, it just develops random features.

Flame ~ Lead Programmer: GMS | GMS

In reply to PPM Unknown Error? by Flame

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