phathead22 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Is there a way of installing Active State libraries/modules without the auto-connect routine in PPM?
I'd like to try to do it manually; I understand that they are already compiled;
Can I just un-zip them and move them to the proper directory?
Thanks PH

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(tye)Re: Active State Libraries:
by tye (Sage) on Jan 19, 2001 at 22:51 UTC

    If I understand your request, then just download the *.PPD file and look in that to see where to find the meat of the distribution for your platform. Download that as well. Then modify the *.PPD file, replacing the "http://..." bit with where you put the rest of the distribution, such as "file:c:/temp/Widget.tar.gz".

    Now you can have PPM install the module by just typing "ppm Widget.ppd" on the command line from the directory where the Widget.ppd file is.

            - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")
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Re: Active State Libraries:
by boo_radley (Parson) on Jan 19, 2001 at 21:48 UTC
    Yes, you can. you can start here. This is also possible with some CPAN modules, if they're implemented in perl.
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Re: Active State Libraries:
by the_slycer (Chaplain) on Jan 19, 2001 at 21:45 UTC
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