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Dave,

In looking at the POD for Mail::Box here I see that Mail::Box "is a" Mail::Reporter (inherets from). That leads me to believe you should also install the Mail::Reporter module in the same way you installed Mail::Box.

The install didn't work

ppm> install Mail-Reporter
Error: Package 'Mail-Reporter' not found. Please 'search' for it first
+.
ppm> install Mail-Box-Manager
Error: Package 'Mail-Box-Manager' not found. Please 'search' for it
first.

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However, when I look at what is included in the tar file (Mail-Box-2.051), I can see files 'reporter.pm' and 'reporter.pod' under the /Mail path, and also I can see files 'manager.pm' and 'manager.pod' under the /Mail/Box path

Does that indicate that I should have used "option 3" instead of using PPM ?

Where is PPM actually looking ? I know it goes out to the Internet, but is there a setting to force it to search in URL's that would contain these modules ?

Peter

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Which method do I use to install a module ?
by davido (Cardinal) on Nov 13, 2003 at 03:59 UTC
    When I check the ActiveState website for Mail::Box at this link I see Mail::Box v2.012 listed as being available.

    And when I type "search Mail-Box" at the ppm> prompt I get the following hits: 

    Searching in Active Repositories
   1. Mail-Box                 [2.048] E-mail handling
   2. Mail-Box-Parser-C        [3.003] C parser for Mail::Box

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    I don't feel any burning desire to install it on my system, so that's as far as I can go toward helping you on the issue. Make sure that you address your questions in Seekers of Perl Wisdom to the community at large, and not just to me. You will get farther with the help of the collective wisdom of the monastery rather than my hit-and-miss experience.

    You may check to ensure that you've got a recent version of ActiveState Perl, and of ppm. And check to see that the module repository list is up to date. ...how to do that, I have to leave you to figure out. ;)

    Hope that this gets you going in the right direction....


    Dave


    "If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber." -- Albert Einstein
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      Dave,

      And when I type "search Mail-Box" at the ppm> prompt I get the following hits:

      Searching in Active Repositories
   1. Mail-Box                 [2.048] E-mail handling
   2. Mail-Box-Parser-C        [3.003] C parser for Mail::Box

      [download]

      Yes, those are the versions that I have already installed. They came from the 'default' repositories when I used PPM

      Make sure that you address your questions in Seekers of Perl Wisdom to the community at large, and not just to me. You will get farther with the help of the collective wisdom of the monastery rather than my hit-and-miss experience.

      Sorry, I don't understand ? I've always posted my (original) posts/questions to "Seekers of Perl Wisdom" , and then as people have replied, I then always select the "reply" link, and I can always see all the posts (nodes) in _that_ thread. Don't these show up in the "Seekers of Perl Wisdom" ??

      Thanks,

      Peter

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