Re: Proxy server thwarts installation of DBI on Win32

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Re^2: Proxy server thwarts installation of DBI on Win32 by etm117 (Pilgrim) on Jul 12, 2005 at 23:28 UTC
I voted this ++ and noticed after my vote, it still had -2... so I had to follow-up. Please see this comp.lang.perl.misc discussion and try and use the HTTP_Proxy variables again. But if that doesn't work the 3rd post down in the link will work. I have the same issues at work and this is exactly how I accomplish getting DBI installed on my local machine (for bare-bones testing of simple scripts, we have AIX machines for dev/test/QA/prod environments).	[reply]
Re^3: Proxy server thwarts installation of DBI on Win32 by artsnova (Novice) on Jul 13, 2005 at 14:18 UTC
Hi etm117, Read the thread at comp.lang.perl.misc. The instructions as presented there did not work. In fact I see no reason to expect those instructions to work. Why would just downloading the ppd file to your PC automatically change the way PPM works, as is implied in the instructions? Still Frustrated.	[reply]
Re^2: Proxy server thwarts installation of DBI on Win32 by artsnova (Novice) on Jul 13, 2005 at 12:46 UTC
Hi SasiKumar, Note that in my original post I indicated that PPM fails. And I did set the necessary environment variable. As of yesterday attempts at issuing any one of several commands resulted in a "method not found" error message. This morning using the install command, I got a URL not found message which is new. Now given that nothing has changed on my machine between yesterday and today, I find this curious. So I stand by my frustration. It really shouldn't be this hard. Thanks for taking the time to respond. Still Frustrated With It All (who is really Jim Plaxco of http://www.marsartgallery.com)	[reply]