Hi, I've been having problems searching and querying on PPM 3.1. I'm running Windows XP SP2 on a Pentium 4 2.8 with 512 ram, and I have uninstalled and re-installed the latest ActivePerl from ActiveState multiple times in different directories with no improvement.

I type 'ppm' at the command promt and the PPM console loads up just fine. Everything seems good until I try typing 'search <whatever>' or 'query *'. At this point it still looks "ok" -- there is no error given nor any indication that something isn't working -- but it never retuns anything. I have waited on a 'query *' overnight with no result. Here is a dump of the text from the ppm console to maybe give a better idea of what is happening: 

C:\Perl>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.

ppm> query *
Querying target 1 (ActivePerl 5.8.4.810)

[download]

Nothing ever happens after that. I'm starting to run out of patience here. Any ideas?

In reply to Problems with PPM under ActivePerl 5.8.4.810 by driver8

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