in reply to PPM Issues

Have you looked at PPM & PMM problems from earlier today? It covers a number of common problems and includes instructions on how to manually download zipped PPDs and then install them using ppm.

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Re^2: PPM Issues
by ramthen (Sexton) on Aug 06, 2005 at 13:34 UTC

    Thanks to Inman and marto for the pointers.

    I have been able to install DBI after setting HTTP_proxy (not in the first try but after several tries). But DBI did not install mysql driver. So am trying to install DBD-Mysql module now.

    I downloaded DBD-Mysql module from Activestate web as .zip file and unzipped to c:\temp\DBD-Mysql. Invoking "ppm install DBD-Mysql" command from this directory gives this error message :

    Error: no suitable installation target found for package DBD-Mysql.

    I also tried manually copying the files as given in the "Guide to installing PPMs" but that did not work complaining that perlCRT.dll is not available. I copied this file from the net to system path and tried to ran a test db script but perl.exe is generating errors.

    Any pointers would be welcome.

    --thanks in advance,

    Mars

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      Hello Monks,

      This time with luck on my side I have been able to install DBI and DBD modules using ppm with less trouble.

      And tested out the installation to verify this and am now able to connect the mysql database(s).

      -- Mars

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