I seem to remember Jan saying they were no longer doing the repositories, maybe it was just for perl 5.10. You can always use the CPAN perl module on the command line....
-Wayne -- Software Engineer InterSystems USA, Inc. 303-858-1000 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Henry Hartley Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 1:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Problems with PPM I'm trying to install Perl on WinXP and although the installation goes fine, I cannot get PPM working. I've tried both 5.10 and 5.8 but get the same results so I don't think it's a version issue. When I run PPM, the GUI comes up but never really finishes loading. It says "Synchronizing Database ... done" but there are no packages listed in the main body of the interface, none of the buttons respond and the cursor is an hourglass. I left it running overnight just in case it took a long time the first time in but it was still like that the next morning. Trying to run ppm at the command line, with ppm-shell, I don't get much farther, although I do get an error message: ppm search failed: Proxy must be specified as absolute URI; '10.1.' is not OK, so I issue this: set http_proxy=http://10.1.137.73:8080 but that doesn't change anything. I get the same error message (with '10.1.' at the end). Oddly, when I download and unzip a package (DBI, to be precise), I still cannot install it. When I issue the command to install, I get the same error message as above: C:\Perl\bin>ppm install s:\source\perl\DBI-1.602\DBI.ppd ppm install failed: Proxy must be specified as absolute URI; '10.1.' is not Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? It's been a while since I installed Perl but it never used to be this hard. -- Henry _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
