Hopefully this is a simple question with a simple answer.

I am attempting to install Net::SFTP using PPM. Since I am behind a firewall, I figured that I would download all the files to my workstation and do the install off my harddrive. I downloaded everything off http://www.soulcage.net/ppds5.8 (for my version of Perl) and fired up ppm. Added the directory I downloaded everything to the repository list and pulled the description of Net-SFTP like it should. I then did an "install Net-SFTP" and came back with the following error message: "Error: Package 'Digest-MD5' not found. Please 'search' for it first."

I could understand this if Digest-MD5 was not installed or something, but its already installed. What might I be doing wrong? I have been able to install this before, but that was from home. Any thoughts? I need to be able to install off the harddrive, for a variety of reasons, one being that when I take this into our test environment, I won't have access to the internet.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts, suggestions.

Update: I finally found the answer. Download the dependency PPMs from ActiveState and run the install. Odd behaviour in my opinion because the dependencies were already in 'lib' and 'site/lib' from when I initially installed Perl.

In reply to Problem installing PPM by nimdokk

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