dear monks

I am new to perl and sometimes work on windows and sometimes on linux. I wanted to install xml::xpath for activestate perl.

In general, how do you know if a module is suitable for windows? For example, here is the page for the xpath module. How do i know its suitable for windows? http://search.cpan.org/~msergeant/XML-XPath-1.13/XPath.pm

I tried to install the package though the package manager ppm but the module wasn't in the list of available modules. How should i have updated the ppm repositories to make this module visible?

I installed the module from something i saw on the internet: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ppm install xml-xpath I believe this is going to the active state repository. Is that correct? How do you know what modules are in the active state repositiry and what they are called?

I believe i could also have just downloaded and unzipped the code and copied it to the appropriate location (providing it is a pure perl module and suitable for window?)Is this correct? I don't install things very often and end up getting confused every time!

thanks a lot

In reply to problem installing modules for activestate perl by Anonymous Monk

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