PPM is the package manager supplied with ActivePerl. In the last distribution that I installed (5.6 build 635), I had the choice of installing PPM2 or PPM3 with PPM3 the default choice. I have never found PPM3 to work properly. If you have the option of installing PPM2, you could try that but you have to completely uninstall PPM3 first. They do not work and play well together.

You could try to download the modules directly from CPAN although, the installation process provided with these modules tends to assume you are using unix or linux so they do not always install well or easily.

Good Luck PJ