Re: installing a module without a ppd file

Hi,
The packages listed at http://ppm.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/8xx-builds-only/Windows/ will contain both a ppd file and a tarball of the blib.

If you grab http://ppm.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/8xx-builds-only/Windows/Math-Random-MT-1.04.zip you should find it contains all you need. (It's not a difficult task to write your own ppd file if need be.)

You should also be able to access the ppd file that gets used to install the module when you do a 'ppm install Math-Random-MT'. But I couldn't quickly determine how to do that - and gave up. (ActiveState like to make things opaque, especially wrt to the ppm utility ... and they're getting very good at doing that :-)

Cheers,
Rob

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installing without Internet connection or local repository by pfeldman (Initiate) on Oct 03, 2006 at 05:30 UTC
I downloaded the .zip archive, transferred it to the computer that doesn't have a network connection, expanded the archive, and successfully installed the package after tweaking the .ppd file to make it point to the correct location. I hadn't realized that it was possible to install a Perl package in this way. That's great. I'm very grateful for the help!!	[reply]