kprasanna_79 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greeting Monks,
I installed Active perl and using ppm i installed DBI. I made setup thr proxy. i am using windows 2000 professional.When i typed install DBI, it throws the following error.
ppm> install DBD-mysql Error: No valid repositories: Error: 501 Protocol scheme '' is not supported Error: 501 Protocol scheme '' is not supported
I need some light thrown on this.
Thanks in advance
Prasanna.K

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Re: Help needed in installing modules using PPM
by Ninthwave (Chaplain) on Jun 22, 2005 at 08:18 UTC

    Getting around proxy should help you specifically. The error 501 Protocol scheme '' is not supported is your clue. I would think that you did something like SET HTTP_PROXY = myproxyaddress WHERE you need to do it as SET HTTP_PROXY=http://myproxyaddress:port noticethe use of http the port and no spacing all important

    If none of this solves it try the steps for a local repository and it may be the nature of you proxy causing the problems.

    "No matter where you go, there you are." BB
Re: Help needed in installing modules using PPM
by gube (Parson) on Jun 22, 2005 at 08:01 UTC
Re: Help needed in installing modules using PPM
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 22, 2005 at 07:51 UTC
    I made setup thr proxy.
    How?
    Error: No valid repositories
    I'm not sure , but the doc mention repository, maybe its the same
      One repository, two repositories. Just like: my story and our stories ;-)


      holli, /regexed monk/