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

I downloaded the RRDtool kit from the net, I was told to run the command "ppm install RRDs.ppd" in the perl-shared directory folder but what i get is the error message that the RRDs.ppd does not exist. How do i get to install this and make my RRDtool work effectively.

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Re: Installing RRDs.ppd
by biohisham (Priest) on Dec 30, 2009 at 12:58 UTC
    Well, running the command "ppm install" would actually download the module, then automatically install the module to the lib folder in Perl for you(if the module was available in the specific perl distribution repository), hence it circumvents the need to download and then navigate to that folder and install a module and all the steps involved. Check ppm.

    Now you downloaded the RRDs.ppd yourself, you need to manually run its MakeFile.pl first and compile it through so you would need the nmake.exe utility to support the manual installation steps on Windows on a similar fashion to that in *nix based systems (i.e 'make', 'make test' and 'make install' would become 'nmake', 'nmake test', 'nmake install' respectively.)...

    check:
    A guide to installing modules for Win32.
    A Guide to Installing Modules

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