I have update my perl on windows with the latest revision of  ActivePerl. 

Now I get v5.8.8 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread

I tried to load additional module using ppm or ppm3 but I got the following errors:

E:\ENZO\perl\copiaFtp>ppm3
PPM - Programmer's Package Manager version 3.4.
Copyright (c) 2001 ActiveState Software Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Entering interactive shell. Using Term::ReadLine::Perl as readline library.

Type 'help' to get started.

ppm> search FTP;
Searching in Active Repositories
Error: connect: Unknown error

 

My current repositories are these:

E:\ENZO\perl\copiaFtp>ppm3 repository
Repositories:
1 ActiveState Package Repository
2 BdP

 

E:\ENZO\perl\copiaFtp>ppm3 repository describe 1
Warning: 500 Can't connect to ppm.ActiveState.com:80 (Bad hostname
'ppm.ActiveState.com')
Describing Active Repository 1:
Name: ActiveState Package Repository
Location:
http://ppm.ActiveState.com/PPM/ppmserver-5.8-windows.plex?urn:/PPM/Server/SQL
Type: unsupported

 

E:\ENZO\perl\copiaFtp>ppm3 repository describe 2
Describing Active Repository 2:
Name: BdP
Location: http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm
Type: Webpage

 

 

With the browser I can read and download the context of http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/

What I'm missing ?

  Regards, Enzo Arlati

 

2006-03-28 Retitled by planetscape, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'Load module using ppm'

In reply to How to install a new module with ppm3 on perl 5.8 for windows by earlati2

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