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.
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