in reply to Module Installation Trouble

With ActivePerl, go to command prompt and type:
ppm install Data-Serializer

[download]

That's all you have to do to install this module from ActiveState's PPM repository.

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re: Re: Module Installation Trouble
by OxYgEn (Acolyte) on Mar 05, 2004 at 00:51 UTC
    Thank you very much, Roger. I didn't know about this command before. However, being as illiterate as I am with Windows(I had to make a reluctant switch from an Apple), I can't find out why it gives me this:

    C:\>ppm install data-serializer
    Installing package 'data-serializer'...
    Error installing package 'data-serializer': Could not locate a PPD file for pack age data-serializer

    I tried specifying the full filepath to Data-Serialzer-0.20.tar.gz, and tried just Data-Serializer-0.20 and I get the same thing.

    Please forgive my stupidity.
[reply]
      Try again with case sensitive module name:
      ppm install Data-Serializer

      [download]

      If this still doesn't work, it means you are behind a firewall and need to go through a proxy and need to setup the proxy environment variables.

      So one step at a time, try again with the command above.

[reply]
[d/l]

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom