Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello,

I installed Active perl 5.8.6 on my computer (1). I am not able to start ppm from the command line...Also, when I try and run a thread application it hangs up. What could be the problem?

In my other computer (2) I have a 5.8.4 installed...and threads and ppm etc work fine on that. I tried to intially copy all my perl files from computer (2) to computer (1), but the threads, ppm etc. did not work. So I installed Activestate perl 5.8.4 into computer (1), that did not make it work. Then I installed Activestate perl 5.8.6 in computer (1) and that also does not seem to help. I feel there is either a module I need to install or it is a small setting problem...but I can't figure out what it is. Any suggetions?

Thanks.

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Re: Getting perl to work
by davidj (Priest) on Dec 23, 2004 at 17:14 UTC
    2 things:
    1) Are you getting error messages or does ppm just hang?
    2) If you access the internet thru a proxy you will need to set the http_proxy environmental variable.

    davidj
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      Hi,

      I am getting no error messages...when I type ppm in the command prompt...it skips a line and then the command prompt shows up again. No error message shows up and also it does not start ppm either.

      The internet access is the same for both computers...so it probably isn't the http proxy thing.

      Thanks.

[reply]
        Hello

        I got it to work...it did not seem to install completly...so after it did...thread, ppm etc. all work.

        Thank you

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