Is there a command line option during install or any way to skip HTML generation?

I don't know of any command line option but in lib/ActivePerl/PPM/Client.pm you'll find: 
my $install_html = eval { require ActivePerl::DocTools; };
$install_html = $args{install_html} if exists $args{install_html};

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Try inserting straight after that: 
$install_html = 0;

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Works for me. I, too, *never* consult a modules html documentation, preferring instead to use perldoc, and I agree that it's annoying to be sitting around waiting for something that you don't really want.

If you poke around in the code you might find that there's a better solution (such as a command line option).

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re: skipping html generation while pkg installation using ppm by syphilis
in thread skipping html generation while pkg installation using ppm by saurabh.hirani

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