Dear monks,

I have tried to find a solution for my problem via SuperSearch, but without success. If I missed a thread, please show me the way, but if there is really no thread to this problem, I would be glad to get your help.

The Problem is: I am not able to install the Oracle DBD package on Windows 2000 / Perl 5.8.X behind a proxy server. (With Active Perl 5.6.X it was no problem and it isn't also from home with Perl 5.8.X without a proxy server.)

I can't reach the Active Perl server from within ppm (because of our proxy server), so I tried to download the package and install it from my local computer.

But ppm always tries to establish a connection to ActiveState before doing anything else, so I can't install this package (and probably any other not pure perl package too :-( ) because it always hang.

I tried a lot things, changing DBD-Oracle8.ppd and so on, but without success. Perhaps I could change the file ppm.pm, but I may not have the right to do so and also don't know, how I could do so, so this way seems to be not a good one.

Has anyone a solution to this problem?

In reply to I am not able to install Oracle DBD on Windows 2000 / Perl 5.8.X behind a proxy server by Crian

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