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

I am running IIS4 on win2000 and am trying to install DBI. I have tried downloading and installing DBi.tar from CPAN but get stuck at the make command (this of course in a unix command). Is there an alternative for

make
make test
make test TEST_VERBOSE=1   (if any of the t/* tests fail)

make install (if the tests look okay)

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I then tried downloading DBI.zip from active state. I ran the ppm.pl with success, but when i tried

install DBI

but was met with the error 'cannot find bundle'.

Can anyone help. Am i trying to install a wrong version? What do i type in the prompt to install DBI. THanks Costas

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(tye)Re: help installing DBI
by tye (Sage) on Apr 04, 2001 at 20:30 UTC

    AFAIK, if you download modules from ActiveState, then you need to download the *.tar.gz that is specific to your version of Perl along with the *.ppd and then edit the *.ppd to point to change "http://....tar.gz" to something like "file://c:/...tar.gz" and then you can say "ppm DBI.ppd" and things should work (this is for getting around any number of web problems like ornery proxies, flaky servers, bad reverse DNS, etc.).

            - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")
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      Excellent it worked.

      1)For my information, exactly why is the ppd needed at all.

      2)Is there a simple way i can check to see wether a module installed correctly. I looked through the perl/lib after installing DBI but could see no DBI.pm.

      3)Can i usee the PPM to check what modules i already have installed on my system.

      Sorry for repost, format on previous was unrecognisable

      Thanks
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        1) Because that is the way ActiveState designed it? It allows PPM to pick which of several *.tar.gz files it needs to fetch based on what version of Perl you have. It records information about versions and dates of the packed-up modules so you don't have to download a huge *.tar.gz just to figure out what is inside.

        2) It will be in perl/site/lib/DBI.pm. This command: perl -MDBI -e "print $DBI::VERSION" shows what version of DBI you have installed and will complain if you have none.

        3) Yes. There is a help (or "?") command that lists the available commands. I don't have PPM handy so you'll have to go look yourself. (:

                - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")
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Re: help installing DBI
by oakley (Scribe) on Apr 04, 2001 at 19:06 UTC
    The site has been flaky, but I know I had problems installing the CGI perlmod a few days ago. What I ended up doing was pointing the perl package manager directly at what I wanted to install. In your case (and if you are running Perl 5.6 and are inside PPM), try:

    install http://www.activestate.com/PPMPackages/5.6/DBI.ppd

    -oakley
    Embracing insanity - one twitch at a time >:)
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      I tried using the WIN32 version of DBI and the error i get is 

      Cant find unicode character property definition via main->a or a.pl at
+ unicode/Is/a.pl line 0

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      Excellent it worked. 1)For my information, exactly why is the ppd needed at all. 2)Is there a simple way i can check to see wether a module installed correctly. I looked through the perl/lib after installing DBI but could see no DBI.pm. 3)Can i usee the PPM to check what modules i already have installed on my system. Thanks
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Re: help installing DBI
by costas (Scribe) on Apr 04, 2001 at 18:30 UTC
    Sorry, THe error message i get after typing

    install DBI

    is

    could not locate a PPM binary for DBI for this platform
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Re: help installing DBI
by grinder (Bishop) on Apr 04, 2001 at 18:36 UTC

    The ActiveState site has been incredibly flakey for the past week. At least for me. You are probably seeing the same phenomenon. DBI is there (I installed that on a machine here only last week), you're just timing out I guess.

    My only suggestion is to keep trying.


    --
    g r i n d e r
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