in reply to Need help installing Mod DBD/DB2 on windows

I installed DBD::DB2 on a WinXP machine. It does not have DB2 (client nor server) installed, so it should not work. The install appears successful, but ppm files DBD-DB2 lists no files, so I don't think it is: 
C:\>ppm install DBD-DB2
Downloading ActiveState Package Repository packlist...not modified
Downloading DBD-DB2-1.7.1...done
Unpacking DBD-DB2-1.7.1...done
Updating files in site area...done

C:\>ppm files DBD-DB2

C:\>

C:\>perl -we "use DBD::DB2"
Can't locate DBD/DB2.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:/Perl/site/lib 
C:/Perl/lib .) at -e line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.

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Re^2: Need help installing Mod DBD/DB2 on windows
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 03, 2009 at 07:03 UTC
    I found the problem, its a bug with the tarball on the repository, the directory inside is called DBD-DB2-1.71 instead of blib
    http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/DBD-DB2.ppd
    http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/x86/DBD-DB2.tar.gz
    Create DBD-DB2.ppd 
    <SOFTPKG NAME="DBD-DB2" VERSION="1,7,1,0">
    <TITLE>DBD-DB2</TITLE>
    <ABSTRACT>Perl driver for IBM DB2 Universal Database</ABSTRACT>
    <AUTHOR>DB2 Perl (db2perl@ca.ibm.com)</AUTHOR>
    <IMPLEMENTATION>
        <OS NAME="MSWin32" />
        <ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8" />
        <CODEBASE HREF="DBD-DB2.tar.gz" />
    </IMPLEMENTATION>
</SOFTPKG>

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    download and fix tarball
    wget -c http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/x86/DBD-DB2.tar.gz
ptar -zxvf DBD-DB2.tar.gz 
del DBD-DB2.tar.gz 
rename DBD-DB2-1.71 blib
ptar -zcvf DBD-DB2.tar.gz blib
rmdir /S /Q blib
ppm install DBD-DB2.ppd

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      Thanks for spotting this - I've fixed it now in our repository.
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