Found the culprit <PACKAGE NAME="Mail-Sender"> In the Author field it has a bunch of Junk that when removed, PPM starts working again. Thanks again Group and mostly to you Trevor. -- Dan
> -----Original Message----- > From: Trevor Joerges [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 9:32 AM > To: Dans Lists; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: PPM has lost its mind-help > > > Dan, > > AFAIK PPM only keeps track of the modules you've actually > installed using PPM and PPM2 uses a different data source > than PPM3. If you are an ASPN subscriber you can also save > you PPM profile at ActiveState so that it can be restored > onto any system. I don't use it myself but what I've read > about it sounds pretty kewl. > > Currently I simply maintain a local flat file of all of the > modules I use and install them via a small script that reads > the list and makes a system call to PPM to install them all > in one shot. > > Cheers, > Trevor. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dans Lists" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Trevor Joerges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Dans Lists" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 12:02 PM > Subject: RE: PPM has lost its mind-help > > > It was after installing a module. > PPM3 did not show the installed modules like "lanman" that I > know I am using... Thanks for the snippet of code I will > give it a try and see if I can get back on track.... :) > > -- > Dan > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Trevor Joerges [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 4:40 AM > > To: Dans Lists; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: PPM has lost its mind-help > > > > > > 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?u > > rn:/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-Count > > erFile;Font-AF > > M;HTML-Parser;HTML-Tree;MIME-Base64;URI;XML-Element;libwww-per > > l;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 > > -------------------------------------------- > > $_=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; > > -------------------------------------------- > > > > ----- 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs > > > _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
