ppm zip downloads

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

Hi,

I have been using http://ppm.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/ for downloading zips to use with ppm on machines that don't have internet access.

That's now asking for a username / password. Does anyone have any other good ways of using ppm with machines that cannot connect to the internet?

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Re: ppm zip downloads by zentara (Cardinal) on Feb 08, 2010 at 16:37 UTC
Try 5.10 ppm repository for Win32 and PPM: Modules Dissappearing / Alternative Repositories? I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Old Perl Programmer Haiku	[reply]
Re: ppm zip downloads by jand (Friar) on Feb 09, 2010 at 00:23 UTC
The ZIP file packages were seriously out-of-date (they haven't been updated for several years). If you are using a version of ActivePerl that contains PPM4 (ActivePerl 820 or later, or any 100x version), then you can just download the *.ppmx files from the ppm4 build status tables, and install them locally with: `ppm install Foo-Bar-0.42.ppmx` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: ppm zip downloads by Gulliver (Monk) on Mar 02, 2011 at 22:52 UTC
I need to install on several 64 bit windows machines behind firewalls so this is something I've been searching for. I tried that link but when I actually save the file it has the extension gz. It says package.ppmx on the popup if you hover the mouse on the link for the different os choices. I have tried extracting the files but there is a .ppd file inside and no sign of ppmx. ppm install foo.ppd gives errors that there is no code inside to build or something similar. I finally went back to dmake. I saw another post warning of the dangers of dmake with ActiveState but I seem to have had good luck so far.	[reply]