Yeah, I don't think that's it. I see no other posts to that effect... although
I have seen posts to that effect in the past.
Can there be another reason? Is it possible, as some other poster said, that my
PPM version might be out of whack?
Brian
--- "Cornish, Merrill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The last time this happened, it was the ActiveState PPM server having
> problems.
>
> Merrill
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Brian McDonald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 2:04 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: PPM problem
>
>
> Hi. I have used PPM before successfully. However, over the last couple days
> I
> have not been able to get it to work correctly. I am using ActivePerl
> 5.6.0.613
> under Win98.
>
> The first issue is pretty basic. I type PPM at the DOS command line, get the
> PPM prompt and then type "search". I get no response -- no list of available
> packages... just a new PPM> prompt and an hourglass that takes some time to
> go
> away.
>
> Second, as I saw with another poster (30 Mar), I get this problem too:
>
> I said:
> ppm
> >PPM install SOAP-Lite
>
> PPM said:
> Install package 'SOAP-Lite?' (y/N):
>
> I said:
> y
>
> PPM said:
> Retrieving package 'SOAP-Lite'...
> Error installing package 'SOAP-Lite': Could not locate a PPD file for
> package
> SOAP-Lite
> >PPM
>
> Does anyone know what the problem is here?
>
> Much obliged,
>
> Brian
>
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