Hello,
I am working on win 2000 with Perl 5.8
I am trying to install certain external packages such as Date-Calc, Carp etc however ppm just wont work.
Below is an example 
ppm> search Date-Calc
Searching in Active Repositories
Error: No valid repositories:
Error: 500 Can't connect to ppm.ActiveState.com:80 (Bad hostname 'ppm.
+ActiveState.com')

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I am behind a proxy server. So I tried an alternate
I downloaded the module on my local machine and then tried installing it. 
ppm> install C:\Perl\newlib\Date-Calc.ppd
Can't call method "ok" on an undefined value at C:/Perl/site/lib/PPM/U
+I.pm line
881, <$__ANONIO__> line 19.

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Anybody been in the same situation and knows whats going on ? Thanks

In reply to PPM wont work by shreya

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