I've run into this recently myself and it's got to do with a bug/feature in
PPM 2.x which does not handle certain HTML characters contained in a few
modules author information. I believe the HTML characters in the modules is
non-standard but this has been fixed in PPM3 in ActivePerl build 631. If you
are using build 631 you can use PPM3 which is much better anyway. Otherwise
just locate your ppm.xml file on your local hard drive and replace it with
something like the following:
<PPMCONFIG>
<PPMVER>2,1,0,0</PPMVER>
<PLATFORM CPU="x86" OSVALUE="MSWin32" OSVERSION="0,0,0,0" />
<OPTIONS BUILDDIR="C:\Temp" CLEAN="1" CONFIRM="1" FORCEINSTALL="1"
IGNORECASE="1" MORE="0" ROOT="D:\Perl" TRACE="0" TRACEFILE="PPM.LOG"
VERBOSE="1" />
<REPOSITORY LOCATION="http://www.roth.net/perl/packages";
NAME="RothConsulting" PASSWORD="" SUMMARYFILE="" USERNAME="" /><REPOSITORY
LOCATION="http://dada.perl.it/PPM"; NAME="DaDa" PASSWORD="" SUMMARYFILE=""
USERNAME="" /><REPOSITORY
LOCATION="http://www.ActiveState.com/cgibin/PPM/ppmserver.pl?urn:/PPMServer";
NAME="ActiveState Package Repository" PASSWORD=""
SUMMARYFILE="fetch_summary" USERNAME="" /><REPOSITORY
LOCATION="http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz/perl"; NAME="Jenda" PASSWORD=""
SUMMARYFILE="" USERNAME=""
/><PPMPRECIOUS>Compress-Zlib;Archive-Tar;Digest-MD5;File-CounterFile;Font-AF
M;HTML-Parser;HTML-Tree;MIME-Base64;URI;XML-Element;libwww-perl;XML-Parser;S
OAP-Lite;PPM;libnet;libwin32</PPMPRECIOUS>
</PPMCONFIG>
Or you can just edit the existing file and remove the illegal HTML tag
characters in the author field of the installed culprit modules.
Hope this helps.
Kind regards,
Trevor J. Joerges
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$_=q;rrUSFWPSZK.ZKPFSHFT,rkvtuZbopuifsZQZibdl
rrqpxfsfeZcyZQ,,riuuq://xxx.%.dpn,ru~@%.dpn ,rrr8-)
;;s;\~;kpfshft;g;s;\%;tfoenjnf;g;y;B-x;A-w;;
s;P;perl;g;s;,;\n;g;s;Y; ;g;s;q;\t;g;print;
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dans Lists" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 2:50 AM
Subject: PPM has lost its mind-help
I am in the middle of a project and PPM has lost its mind.
When I get into the prompt and type set I get the following:
PPM interactive shell (2.1.5) - type 'help' for available commands.
PPM> set
Commands will not be confirmed.
Temporary files will not be deleted.
Download status will not be updated.
Case-sensitive searches will be performed.
Package installations will not continue if a dependency cannot be
installed.
Tracing info will not be written.
Screens will not pause.
Query/search results will not be verbose.
Current PPD repository paths:
I tried to put things back to normal but when I type set save exit and
return it does not save the info.
I need to get this fixed without reinstalling perl. Can anyone help?????
--
Daniel Peterson
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