PPM connection problems were recently addressed in a thread in this mailing list. Refer to http://www.mail-archive.com/dbi-users@perl.org/msg25563.html
If you are using ActiveState Perl, you *want* to get PPM to work for you to install packages. That is the easiest way. -----Original Message----- From: uresh.kuruhuri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 4:41 AM To: dbi-users@perl.org Subject: Could not install DBI, DBD::Oracle for AS Perl. Please help me out!!!!! Hi everybody,,, I have found esoftmatic.com showing the instructions for the installation of the DBI, and DBD modules for the AS perl. I installed AS Perl 5.8.7 on Windows XP. I tried to install DBI module for it as follows ppm install ftp://ftp.esoftmatic.com/outgoing/DBI/5.8.3/DBI.ppd as well as.... ppm install http://ftp.esoftmatic.com/outgoing/DBI/5.8.3/DBI.ppd but it is bouncing with the following error: Error: No valid repositories: Error: 500 Can't connect to ppm.ActiveState.com:80 (Bad hostname 'ppm.ActiveState.com') Error: 500 Can't connect to ppm.ActiveState.com:80 (Bad hostname 'ppm.ActiveState.com') (May be this is due to a firewall that is installed in the organization) After this try failed, I downloaded the following tar files from the link: http://ftp.esoftmatic.com/outgoing/DBI/5.8.3/ 1.DBI-1.43-5.8.3.tar 2.DBD-Oracle-1.15-5.8.3.tar 3.DBD-ODBC-1.10-5.8.3.tar 4.Test-Simple-0.47-5.8.3.tar and unzipped them using the winzip and all the files have got created in 'blib' directory. But I could not find a proper guidance for the installation with these tar files. Can you please help me out in installing DBI, DBD::Oracle in my machine with these tar files or any alternative???!!! Hoping a reply. Thanks in advance. Regards, Uresh Kumar KV Get Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at http://email.indiatimes.com Buy The Best In BOOKS at http://www.bestsellers.indiatimes.com Bid for for Air Tickets @ Re.1 on Air Sahara Flights. Just log on to http://airsahara.indiatimes.com and Bid Now!
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