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Here's how I just added the bribes repo to my list on ActivePerl build 1202 (5.12.2): 
C:\_32>ppm repo add http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm
Downloading ActiveState Package Repository packlist...done
Downloading www.bribes.org packlist...done
Updating www.bribes.org database...done
Repo 2 added.

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Maybe you need to include the 'www.' in the url.

Cheers,
Rob
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Re^2: Unable to enable - trying to add repositories to PPM (ActivePerl 5.12)
by elef (Friar) on Nov 17, 2010 at 00:25 UTC
    Thanks for the detailed advice. I copy-pasted your command into the console. Got no error message, "Repo 2 added" - everything seems fine.
    But in PPM, I see this:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/lofarkas/5183303392/
    0 packages as you can see, and HTML::Strip is still not in the module list.
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      and HTML::Strip is still not in the module list

      Odd - I get: 
      C:\_32>ppm search HTML-Strip
1: HTML-Strip
   Perl extension for stripping HTML markup from text.
   Version: 1.06
   Author: Alex Bowley (kilinrax@cpan.org)
   Repo: www.bribes.org
   CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Strip-1.06/

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      What does the same command return for you ?

      As I write this, however, the bribes repo appears to be unreachable.
      Even ppm install http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/HTML-Strip.ppd (which doesn't even need bribes on the repo list) hangs.
      I'm not sure how long it has been like this ... or for how long these conditions will last. I'll send the owner of the repo a message, just in case he's unaware of this.

      Cheers,
      Rob
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        No hits from bribes:
        Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Users\A>ppm search HTML-Strip
1: HTML-Strip-Whitespace
   Perl extension for stripping whitespace out of
HTML.
   Version: 0.1.6
   Released: 2008-03-22
   Repo: ActiveState Package Repository

2: HTML-StripScripts
   Strip scripting constructs out of HTML
   Version: 1.05
   Released: 2009-11-05
   Repo: ActiveState Package Repository

3: HTML-StripScripts-Parser
   XSS filter using HTML::Parser
   Version: 1.03
   Released: 2009-11-05
   Repo: ActiveState Package Repository

4: HTML-StripScripts-Regex
   XSS filter using a regular expression
   Version: 0.02
   Released: 2009-10-20
   Repo: ActiveState Package Repository

C:\Users\A>

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