Hi!

Marco, does installing from ppd file download and install properly?

I had some problems installing from the PPD file because ppm write
temporary files to $HOME/My Documents/Local Settings/Temp, however, on
Swedish system this is named $HOME/Mina Document/Lokala
Inställning/Temp where the aumlaut cause encoding confusion (likely a
problem between cp850 and Windows Latin 1 encodings.) I tried to
bypass the encoding problem by creating a directory with the
malencoded name, $HOME/Mina Dokument/Lokala instõllningar/Temp,
however I must redo this again because I don't remember why this
failed... (maybe a 404 file-not-found occured when ppm tried to
download.)

In addition, downloading the tarball and unarchive it with winzip
failed because the folder hierarchy was not preserved. I therefore
runned MinGW's gnutar on the archive and it decompressed properly,
preserving the folder hierarchy. But making the install target from
MinGW's MSys terminal placed some files into "wrong" folder (in to
Perl/site/lib/arch/Pg, which I manually putted in
Perl/site/lib/auto/Pg.) This worked.

Right know I'm very busy, but I can retry install from the PPD file
and give a more detail explanation later (this was also my plan :-).)
I also need to check how to set encoding properly in the Windows
commandprompt etc. to satisfy ppm tool. If you are trying installing
on a english/ASCII compatible system, there shouldn't be this problem.

As far for the encoding, my plan is to specify encoding with a cmd.exe
switch (e.g. cmd.exe /???:cp819), and add a system environmental
variable, too. (e.g. LANG=C and LC_ALL=sv.UTF-8). But I haven't tried
this yet.

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