Fellow monks,

Installing a ppd perl module from local directory should be quite straightforward. But it is not. So as I've spent too much time to achieve it today, here is what I did.

One good reason to need this is when there is a proxy between Internet and you, that requires NTLM authentication.
  1. Download ActivePerl (of course, but who knows ;)
  2. Choose a local directory that will store browser-downloaded packages (for exemple, I'll use d:\documents and settings\zejames\my documents\ppd
  3. Add this repository to ppm and make it the main one: 
    D:\perl\bin>ppm

PPM - Programmer's Package Manager version 3.1.
Copyright (c) 2001 ActiveState Corp. All Rights Reserved.
ActiveState is a devision of Sophos.

Entering interactive shell. Using Term::ReadLine::Stub as readline lib
+rary.

Type 'help' to get started.

    [download]
    ppm> rep add Local "d:\documents and settings\zejames\my documents\ppd" 
    [1] ActiveState PPM2 Repository
[2] ActiveState Package Repository
[3] Local

    [download]
    ppm> rep up Local 
    Repositories:
[1] ActiveState PPM2 Repository
[2] Local
[3] ActiveState Package Repository

    [download]
    ppm> rep up Local 
    Repositories:
[1] Local
[2] ActiveState PPM2 Repository
[3] ActiveState Package Repository

    [download]
  4. Download the package on the Internet and the .ppd file, and put them into your repository
  5. Edit the .ppd file :
    • remove the ARCHITECTURE line (<ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8" />)
    • Change the CODEBASE information : 
      [...]
<CODEBASE HREF="file://D:/Documents and Setting/zejames/my documents/p
+pd/Math-Pari.tar.gz" />
[...]

      [download]
  6. Finally, launch ppm to install it : 
    D:\Perl\bin>ppm install Math-Pari
====================
Install 'Math-Pari' version 2.010500 in ActivePerl 5.8.4.810.
====================
Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Math\Pari\Pari.dll
Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Math\Pari\Pari.lib
Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Math\Pari\Pari.exp
Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Math\Pari\Pari.bs
Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\Math\Pari.html
Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\Math\libPARI.dumb.html
Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\Math\libPARI.html
Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\Math\PariInit.html
Files found in blib\arch: installing files in blib\lib into architectu
+re depende
nt library tree
Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\Math\libPARI.dumb.pod
Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\Math\PariInit.pm
Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\Math\Pari.pm
Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\Math\libPARI.pod
Successfully installed Math-Pari version 2.010500 in ActivePerl 5.8.4.
+810.

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  7. That should be good : 
    D:\Perl\bin>perl -MMath::Pari -e ''

    [download]

--
zejames

In reply to Installing ppd package from a local repository by zejames

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