in reply to Could Not Locate a PPD File

I am not able to use CPAN to install perl modules because there seems to be a firewall.

If there was a firewall, PPM would have the same exact issue as cpan

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Re^2: Could Not Locate a PPD File
by Marshall (Canon) on Feb 26, 2012 at 00:56 UTC
    In that case, download the .ppd file and use "sneaker net" to get it to the target machine. Then use ppm command line to install the module.
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      Thanks for all of the comments!
      I was not able to find a ppd file to download for the Date::Calc module. I ended up just going to the cpan website and copying and pasting the cacl.pm code. I then saved it in a directory that I created, C:\strawberry\perl\lib\Date.
      After that I ran a perl scrip that called the date calc module with the line of code:
      use Date::Calc;
      After that I just resolved the dependencies one by one.
      This solution is probably not feasible nor advisable for larger modules that have many dependent modules but it seems to be working for the Date::Calc module.
      Once Again Thanks!
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