could'nt locate a PPD file

krishjack has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: could'nt locate a PPD file by {NULE} (Hermit) on Dec 11, 2001 at 06:18 UTC
Hi krishjack, ppm doesn't work that way. Sound like you retrieved the module source from CPAN. In order to get ppm (from ActiveState's distribution, I presume) to install DBD::ODBC you probably have to type something (from within the ppm utility) like: `install DBD-ODBC` [download] Note that not everything on CPAN is available as a .ppd file. Curses is one that I recall off the top of my head. The difference between the source tarballs and the .ppd files is that the ppd files are pre-built for your architecture. Good luck, feel free to post follow-up questions if this doesn't make sense to you. Update: Changed DBD::ODBC to DBD-ODBC. I'm not terribly familiar with ActiveState's excellent distribution. Thanks, lachoy. {NULE} -- http://www.nule.org	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: could'nt locate a PPD file by lachoy (Parson) on Dec 11, 2001 at 09:38 UTC
Tiny change -- that should be: `ppm> install DBD-ODBC` [download] Beginners see the error message ("Cannot find DBD::ODBC") and get confused... Chris M-x auto-bs-mode	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: could'nt locate a PPD file by strat (Canon) on Dec 11, 2001 at 17:19 UTC
If you can't do so because of a proxy, just set the environmentvariable HTTP_PROXY to http://yourproxy:proxyPort/, eg. Linux: export HTTP_PROXY=http://myproxy:8080/ Win32: set HTTP_PROXY=http://myproxy:8080/ and try again... Best regards, `perl -e "print a\|r,p\|d=>b\|p=>chr 3**2 .7=>t and t"`	[reply] [d/l]