in reply to installing tk::jpeg

The ppm you are looking for exists here, and I was able to install it via ppm.

You can either download the file and install it with ppm or you can add the site to your ppm repositories. Check your Activestate ppm docs if you don't know how to do so.

Activestate tends to keep what can be considered 'core' modules in their repository, but it's well worth checking other ppm sources to find modules that you really want, and doing so is usually much less trouble then trying to compile them yourself with Visual C++.

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