in reply to ActiveState Module Install Without PPM

Anyone know where my problem could be

You've copied site/lib/Sub/Name.pm across ok, but you haven't copied site/lib/auto/Sub/Name/Name.dll (the "loadable object" that cannot be located) across.

Anyone know the most reliable way of downloading modules and their dependencies on ActiveState perl without PPM?

If you have an internet connection, you should be able to get PPM working. Otherwise the best way is to get a compiler (eg the freely available MinGW) and a make utility (eg the freely available dmake) and build and install the modules from CPAN source - but you'll still need to be able to download the CPAN source.

UPDATE: Follow jand's advice instead of the link I provided below.

You can also download PPM packages to your machine without using PPM itself, then perform a local PPM install. For the 5.8.x packages, go here - I don't have a link to the 5.10 packages but it shouldn't be hard to find.

Cheers,
Rob
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Re^2: ActiveState Module Install Without PPM
by jand (Friar) on Jun 18, 2009 at 05:51 UTC
    Please don't use the old *.zip archives anymore. They are not being maintained anymore. You can download *.ppmx files directly from the PPM build status pages and install them with: 
        ppm install FooBar-1.23.ppmx
    A .ppmx file is just the usual tarball of the blib tree plus an additional *.ppd included. These files are the same tarballs that PPM itself would download from the repo.
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Re^2: ActiveState Module Install Without PPM
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 18, 2009 at 02:53 UTC
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