Install Proc::ProcessTable on windows by ppm

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

Hi all, I downloaded the zipped binary version of Proc::ProcessTable from 'http://ppm.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/6xx-builds-only/' & tried to install it. I cd to the folder where I had .ppd file then entered command

ppm install Proc-ProcessTable.ppd
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but got an error saying

Error: no suitable installation target found for package Proc-ProcessT
+able.
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Can anyone kindly give me the url (or repository) to install Proc-ProcessTable using ppm on windows.
Thanks in advance

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Re: Install Proc::ProcessTable on windows by ppm by Anonymous Monk on Jun 07, 2005 at 07:46 UTC
Quote from Proc::ProcessTable docs: Proc::ProcessTable - Perl extension to access the unix process table Why do you want to install a module to access Unix process tables in Windows?	[reply]
Re^2: Install Proc::ProcessTable on windows by ppm by Nalina (Monk) on Jun 07, 2005 at 08:13 UTC
Because when I try to kill a process using Proc::Killfam I get an error saying `Proc::ProcessTable missing, can't kill sub-children. at D:/Program Fil +es/Perl/site/lib/Proc/Killfam.pm line 22.` [download] I didn't get any information regarding ppm installation of Proc::ProcessTable in CPAN. I just need the url of the site where i can get .ppd file of the module.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Install Proc::ProcessTable on windows by ppm by ZlR (Chaplain) on Jun 07, 2005 at 08:27 UTC
You also need to have cygwin installed to make it work under Windows, as stated in the Proc::ProcessTable readme file. When i needed to do what killfam does (i.e : kill all sons of a given PID) i used Win32::PerfLib recursively to get a list of all sons of a pid and then called Win32::Process:KillProcess on the resulting list . Also it may be interesting to look at Win32::Job ( perl 5.8) since it allows job management : Windows 2000 introduced the concept of a ``job'': a collection of processes which can be controlled as a single unit. For example, you can reliably kill a process and all of its children by launching the process in a job, then telling Windows to kill all processes in the job. Win32::Job makes this feature available to Perl. ( from Win32::Job description ) . Cheers, zlr_	[reply]
Re: Install Proc::ProcessTable on windows by ppm by tchatzi (Acolyte) on Jun 07, 2005 at 09:05 UTC
if you have the Proc-ProcessTable.ppd file in lets say this directory c:\Proc-ProcessTable then what you have to do is `c:\> ppm ppm> install --location=c:\Proc-ProcessTable Proc-ProcessTable` [download] ``The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.'' TIMTOWTDI	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Install Proc::ProcessTable on windows by ppm by Nalina (Monk) on Jun 08, 2005 at 04:29 UTC
I tried it. but it saya unknown option: location	[reply]
Re^3: Install Proc::ProcessTable on windows by ppm by tchatzi (Acolyte) on Jun 08, 2005 at 22:15 UTC
So you are using ppm 3.1 then you need `ppm> install c:\Proc-ProcessTable\Proc-ProcessTable.ppd` [download] The bad news are that this module cannot be installed on Windows though. ``The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.'' TIMTOWTDI	[reply] [d/l]