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

using windows in command prompt i type ppm and get this error: Element 'IMPLEMEMTATION' must contain a 'CODEBASE' element. at C:/Perl/site/lib/PPM.pm line 1684. I'm using ppm version: 2.1.6

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Re: ppm initiation issues
by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Jan 27, 2005 at 01:59 UTC
Re: ppm initiation issues
by talexb (Chancellor) on Jan 26, 2005 at 19:06 UTC

    If you are using PPM, I don't see anywhere in the documentation on CPAN that says that you can run it from the command prompt. Or have I misunderstood your question?

    Alex / talexb / Toronto

    "Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

      I cannot duplicate this issue with my version of ppm and win (see details below); however, you should be able to run ppm from the command prompt, though I don't believe that is explicitly stated in any documentation. At least, you certainly ought to be able with Active-Perl installed.

      Microsoft Windows 2000  Version 5.00.2195
      (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.
      
      C:\>ppm
      PPM - Programmer's Package Manager version 3.1.
      Copyright (c) 2001 ActiveState Corp. All Rights Reserved.
      ActiveState is a devision of Sophos.
      
      Entering interactive shell. Using Term::ReadLine::Stub as readline library.
      
      Type 'help' to get started.
      
      ppm>
      

      Update: Removed brackets around windows version and html changes.
      # r/020505

      /renz.
      "The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape." --Leonard Cohen.

      hmm... i type cmd in run box - opens dos window and i type ppm and get the error then i get the ppm prompt