Hi,
I have tried using ppm to install modules, but get this error: 

    HTTP POST failed: 500 (Can't connect to www.activestate.com:80 (Ba
+d hostname 'www.activestate.com') at C:/Program     Files/ejd/perl/si
+te/lib/LWP/Protocol/http.pm line 33, <> line 1.), in SOAP method call
+. Content of response:  at C:/Program     Files/ejd/perl/site/lib/PPM
+/SOAPClient.pm line 222

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It was suggested I try set an Environment Variable to a proxy server, I did this, but get the same error or it times out. So I went to http://ppm.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/8xx-builds-only/Windows/ and downloaded DBI-1.39.zip, unzipped it in a directory called perl/install and followed the instructions in the readme file (ppm install dbi.ppd), whch resulted in the following error: 

    C:\PROGRA~1\ejd\perl\bin>ppm install dbi.ppd
    Retrieving package 'dbi.ppd'...
    Error installing package 'dbi.ppd': Could not locate a PPM binary 
+of 'dbi.ppd' for this platform

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I tried dbi.ppm, moved all the files to per\bin, copied them to the lib and site\lib directories... all to no avail.

What am I doing wrong here?

20031222 Edit by Corion: Added formatting

In reply to Installing DBI Module by Anonymous Monk

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