in reply to Activestate Perl module upgrade assistance

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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Re^2: Activestate Perl module upgrade assistance
by mrlizard123 (Novice) on Jun 09, 2009 at 10:44 UTC
    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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        I use strawberry perl on my windows laptop, but unfortunately I don't have the luxury of dictating what is used on the server in question... ah well, we do what we must.

        Thanks again for your help, very much appreciated! :)
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        ActivePerl has included a preconfigured cpan shell for a couple of years too; you just need to install a C compiler in order to build modules containing XS. You can use PPM to install gcc from MinGW and dmake using: 
            ppm install MinGW
        Also, Strawberry Perl comes with a PPM commandline client too.
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