Ad 5.: You should NOT touch the <ARCHITECTURE ...>. If the architecture specified in the .ppd doesn't match your Perl, the module was compiled for a different Perl and most likely will not work correctly. You may only do this safely if the module is pure Perl, as soon as the .tar.gz contains any .DLLs you are going to run into problems. Also if you put the .ppd and the .tar.gz into the same folder, you may use "relative" path to the .tar.gz in the .ppd. Which means that quite often you actually do not need to touch the .ppd at all.

P.S.: "Documents and Settings"? Bleargh. As if "Program", space, "Files" was not stupid enough.

Jenda
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In reply to Re: Installing ppd package from a local repository by Jenda
in thread Installing ppd package from a local repository by zejames

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