Hi,

I just updated to perl 5.8, and got the new ppm 3.1 with it. Now I seem to
have a problem, getting modules installed. I did a search for pdf for
example, and got this result:

ppm> search pdf
Using cached search result set 1.
   1. Data-Dbf2pdf            [0.7] Converts DBF file format to PDF format
   2. PDF-API2             [0.3b49] TNG PDF Generation API
   3. PDF-API2             [0.3d71] TNG PDF Generation API
   4. PDF-API2             [0.3r74] TNG PDF Generation API
   5. PDF-API2             [0.3r77] TNG PDF Generation API
   6. PDF-Extract            [2.02] (none)
   7. PDF-Extract            [2.05] Extracting sub PDF documents from a
multi ~
   8. PDF-Extract            [2.06] Extracting sub PDF documents from a
multi ~
   9. PDF-FDF-Simple         [0.02] Read and write (Acrobat) FDF files.
  10. PDF-Report             [1.00] (none)
  11. PDF-Report             [1.10] A wrapper written for PDF::API2
  12. PDF-Report             [1.20] A wrapper written for PDF::API2
  13. PDF-Reuse              [0.05] (none)
  14. PDF-Reuse              [0.06] (none)
  15. PDF-Reuse              [0.08] Reuse and mass produce PDF documents
with ~
  16. PDF-Reuse              [0.09] Reuse and mass produce PDF documents
with ~
  17. PDF-Reuse              [0.10] Reuse and mass produce PDF documents
with ~
  18. PDF-Reuse              [0.11] Reuse and mass produce PDF documents
with ~
  19. PDF-Reuse              [0.14] Reuse and mass produce PDF documents
with ~
  20. PDF-Reuse              [0.16] Reuse and mass produce PDF documents
with ~
  21. PDF-Reuse              [0.17] Reuse and mass produce PDF documents
with ~
  22. PDF-Reuse              [0.18] Reuse and mass produce PDF documents
  23. PDF-Reuse              [0.19] Reuse and mass produce PDF documents
  24. PDF-Reuse              [0.20] Reuse and mass produce PDF documents
  25. PDF-Reuse              [0.29] Reuse and mass produce PDF documents
  26. PDF-Reuse-Barcode      [0.01] (none)
  27. PDF-Reuse-OverlayCh~   [0.01] Produce simple or mixed charts with
PDF::R~
  28. PDF-Reuse-Scramble     [0.05] Scrambles/encrypts data to and from PDF
do~
  29. PDF-Template           [0.05] Perl extension for separation of data
and ~
  30. PDFLib                 [0.12] (none)
  31. PDFREP                 [1.01]
  32. Text-PDF               [0.23] PDF Manipulation and generation
  33. Text-PDF               [0.25] PDF Manipulation and generation
  34. Win32-ShellExt          [0.1] Allows to write Windows shell extensions
i~

Now I want to install No. 25, so I do:

ppm> install 25
Package 25:
Error: PPD for 'PDF-Reuse.ppd' could not be found.
ppm> describe 25
====================
Package 25:
Error: PPD for 'PDF-Reuse.ppd' could not be found.
====================
ppm> rep
Repositories:
[1] ActiveState PPM2 Repository
[2] ActiveState Package Repository
[3] Jenda

Whats going wrong here? Btw, I'm behind a proxy, Environment Variables are
set, though ftp doesn't work. But as far as I know, packages are fetched by
http...

Lars
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