I have perl 5.8.7 installed on my WinXP machine. I'm trying to install DBI and DBD::ORACLE. None of the posting's I've read is helping.
When I run ppm, I get: Error: No valid repositories: Error: 500 Can't connect to ppm.ActiveState.com:80 (Bad hostname 'ppm.ActiveState.com') I can get to this site using my web browser. Someone suggested I reinstall PPM, so I copied ppm-1.50 and installed it. It doesn't look the same, but, I don't get the error 500. Instead I tried: Ppm install ftp://ftp.esoftmoatic.com/outgoing/DBI/5.8.7/DBI.ppd, the error comes back: Error installing package 'ftp://ftp.esoftmatic.com/outgoing/DBI/5.8.7/DBI.ppd : Could not locate a PPD file for package. I tried one for ftp (which I already have installed) and it gives me the same error. I also tried downloading the files and running Perl Makefile.pl Nmake It doesn't compile because of link errors - can't find some of the .dll files. Help Bob
