What Perl installation do you have on your Windows box? If you're using ActiveState, do the following to install a module:

  1. Open a DOS prompt.
  2. Change directories to the location where you installed Perl.
  3. Change into the bin subdirectory of your Perl installation.
  4. Type ppm at the prompt.

This runs the ppm.bat batch file and opens an interactive PPM session. (You can tell you're in a PPM session because the prompt is ppm>.) Type help to get a listing of commands. In the case of Net::Ping, type:

search Net-Ping

and press Enter. PPM will search ActiveState repositories for the module and return a numbered listing of its findings. For example:

ppm> search Net-Ping
Searching in Active Repositories
  1. Net-Ping-External [0.11] Cross-platform interface to ICMP "ping" 
+utilities
ppm>

[download]

To install one of the listed modules, simply type the install command along with the name, or number, of the desired package, like so:

ppm> install 1

or

ppm> install Net-Ping-External

[download]

PPM will fetch and install the module and write a series of messages to the screen. When it completes, it returns to the PPM prompt. Type q to quit the PPM session.

PPM will make your module-installing life much easier under Windows. :)

I hope this helps.

/Larry

In reply to Re^3: Array Problem by larryp
in thread Array Problem by wanderinweezard

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