Oh wise ones,
please enlighten me about the requirements for using ppm under Windows XP with limited user rights, as the program does not even execute for me, whatever I try.

These are my settings:

C:\Programs\Perl\bin>path
PATH=C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\maven-1.0\bin;C:\Prog
+ram Files\apache-ant-1.6.1\bin;
C:\Programs\j2sdk1.4.2\bin;C:\Programs\Perl\bin\;C:\PROGRA~1\REFLEC~1;
+C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;
C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tool
+s\BINN;
U:\UnxUtils\usr\local\wbin;U:\UnxUtils\bin;U:\UnxUtils\bin\mc;C:\Docum
+ents and Settings\jfaehrma\jython-2.1

C:\Programs\Perl\bin>ls
GET               dprofpp.bat       perlbug.bat       psed.bat
GET.bat           enc2xs.bat        perlcc.bat        pstruct.bat
HEAD              exetype.bat       perldoc.bat       ptked
HEAD.bat          find2perl.bat     perlglob.bat      ptked.bat
IISScriptMap.pl   gedi              perlglob.exe      ptksh
POST              gedi.bat          perlivp.bat       ptksh.bat
POST.bat          h2ph.bat          piconv.bat        reloc_perl
PerlEz.dll        h2xs.bat          pl2bat.bat        reloc_perl.bat
PerlIS.dll        instmodsh.bat     pl2pm.bat         runperl.bat
PerlMsg.dll       libnetcfg.bat     pod2html.bat      s2p.bat
PerlSE.dll        lwp-download      pod2latex.bat     search.bat
SOAPsh.bat        lwp-download.bat  pod2man.bat       splain.bat
SOAPsh.pl         lwp-mirror        pod2text.bat      stubmaker.bat
XMLRPCsh.bat      lwp-mirror.bat    pod2usage.bat     stubmaker.pl
XMLRPCsh.pl       lwp-request       podchecker.bat    tkjpeg
a2p.exe           lwp-request.bat   podselect.bat     tkjpeg.bat
c2ph.bat          lwp-rget          ppm.bat           widget
config.pl         lwp-rget.bat      ppm3-bin          widget.bat
cpan.bat          perl.exe          ppm3-bin.cfg      wperl.exe
crc32             perl5.8.4.exe     ppm3.bat          xsubpp.bat
crc32.bat         perl58.dll        prove.bat

C:\Programs\Perl\bin>cat ppm3-bin.cfg
ActivePerl 5.8.4.810: %
    path: C:\Programs\Perl\site\lib\ppm-conf\ppminst.bat
    port: 14533
    type: Local
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This is what I tried so far:

C:\Programs\Perl\bin>ppm
'C:\Programs\Perl\bin\ppm3-bin' is not recognized as an internal or ex
+ternal command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Programs\Perl\bin>ppm3.bat
'C:\Programs\Perl\bin\ppm3-bin' is not recognized as an internal or ex
+ternal command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Programs\Perl\bin>ppm.bat
'C:\Programs\Perl\bin\ppm3-bin' is not recognized as an internal or ex
+ternal command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Programs\Perl\bin>ppm3-bin
'ppm3-bin' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
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I can not use perl -MCPAN -e shell as I am behind a corporate firewall. Manual installation becomes painfull with the more complex stuff like DBI.
Any ideas what might be wrong?

Thanks and regards,
jonix