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

I need to get Crypt::SSLeay installed, but the Winnipeg Cpan site seems to have vanished, or died. Anyone know if there is another repository?
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Re: Crypt::SSLeay - anyone know where the windows ppd might be now?
by marto (Cardinal) on Apr 25, 2008 at 14:36 UTC
    Try http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/Crypt-SSLeay.ppd or using PPM::Repositories? Failing that I would use Google to search for it.

    Hope this helps

    Martin
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      Thanks - bribes.org worked just fine - never heard of the PPm repositories list though.
      NB: I did Google it, but everything was pointing back to uwinnipeg.ca!
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        Glad that worked for you, PPM::Repositories comes in really handy at times. Regards searching Google, since you knew that uwinnipeg.ca was down you should have used the search string:

        "Crypt-SSLeay.ppd" --uwinnipeg.ca

        to eliminate results containing the text uwinnipeg.ca. Understanding how to exploit search engine features is often overlooked, but worth while knowing.

        Thanks

        Martin
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Re: Crypt::SSLeay - anyone know where the windows ppd might be now?
by jettero (Monsignor) on Apr 25, 2008 at 14:39 UTC
    Yeah, I'm getting that too, trying to reinstall it: ERROR: 500 Can't connect to theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca:80 (connect: Unknown error)

    My hunch is that it's a temporary problem. I'm sure there'll be a repo carrying the module eventually.

    UPDATE: PPM::Repositories is pretty wow. Never heard of it.

    -Paul

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      The server hosting the uwinnipeg repositories died over the weekend, but it's back up now.
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