mrlizard123 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Can anyone advise me how to upgrade a module for activestate perl when the machine in question does not have access to the internet?

Any help greatly appreciated!

MrL
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Re: Activestate Perl module upgrade assistance
by marto (Cardinal) on Jun 09, 2009 at 10:36 UTC

    Hi mrlizard123,

    Provided you can download the modules elsewhere and transfer them to the computer in question (USB drive perhaps?) see A guide to installing modules for Win32 from the tutorials section of this site. Also IIRC you can do soemthing like:

    c:\temp\ppm install --location=. Module-Name

    Provided that you have extracted the zip file in the location you into the c:\temp path.

    Martin

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      Thanks for the reply Martin,

      Please forgive my ignorance in asking but the information is for installing a module; do you know if it will it cause issues if a previous version of a module is already present? Or is that all magically taken care of?

      Cheers
      MrL
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        mrlizard123,

        I'm pretty sure that install will simply install the new version of the module, replacing the existing (in this case older) version. If I am wrong I'll soon be corrected :)

        You could check the documentation for the version of PPM you are using. I've not used PPM for quite some time since I use Strawberry Perl when working on a Microsoft Windows platform, which has cpan in addition to ppm.

        Martin

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Re: Activestate Perl module upgrade assistance
by jand (Friar) on Jun 09, 2009 at 15:18 UTC
    You can download the *.ppmx files from the PPM build status pages and transfer them to your disconnected machine via CDR or USB memory stick. Then install them with 
        ppm install Foo-Bar.ppmx
    You may need to remove a previous installation of the module if it also was installed in the site/lib/ tree.

    You'll also have to make sure you install all prerequisite modules manually too, as PPM will not be able to fetch them automatically in this scenario.

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      I believe typical activestate ppm installation will install in site/lib. Just make sure that your @INC is 'xxx/site/lib' and 'xxx/lib' where xxx is your base AS Perl installation directory. perl -e "print join \"\n\", @INC;"
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        PPM will install by default into the first writable directory in @INC. Or you can specify the installation directory using the --area xxxx option. Use 
            ppm area list
        to get a list of the area names of your directories in @INC (normally just the last segment of the path for each directory, unless it is lib).

        And for ActivePerl site/lib is already in front of lib.

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