On Mar 8, 2013, at 8:57 PM, *Shaji Kalidasan* wrote: > Greetings, > > I did a fresh installation of Active Perl version 5.16.2 and while using Perl > Package Manager (PPM) GUI interface, the view all packages (Ctrl + 1) shows > only the packages that comes with standard Perl distribution. > > It shows the total number of known packages (272 packages), number of > packages in filtered view (272 listed), number of packages installed (272), 0 > to install, 0 to remove, Install Area : site > > I am unable to see packages from CPAN apart from the packages from standard > distribution (i.e apart from 272 packages). > > The install area is C:\Perl64 (Running Windows 7) > > Where am I going wrong?
ppm needs to connect to a PPM repository to access Perl packages pre-built for ActiveState Perl. ppm does not connect to CPAN directly. ppm should have a default repository specified. When you start ppm, it first attempts to synchronize to this repository. Is that happening? Does your version of ppm have a repository defined? Click on the PPM Preferences button to see. (I don't have the Windows version of ActivePerl or ppm, so I can't tell you exactly what to do). See here for instructions on how to use ppm and a list of repositories: <http://docs.activestate.com/activeperl/5.16/faq/ActivePerl-faq2.html> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
