Well, that should have worked, but I ran into something that Ilya thinks is probably a bug with the old ppm. No matter how I refer to where the local ..ppd files are on my system, ppm errors out saying:
C:\XMLPROJ\db>ppm install DBI-1_20.ppd Error installing package 'DBI-1_20.ppd': Error reading ./: 400 URL must be absolute I tried setting the repository to c:/Becka/xmlproj/db, but I got the same error. Also tried going the \\Becka route. So I just uninstalled Perl 5.5, installed 5.6.1, and am struggling now with firewall problems and ppm- setting the environment variable HTTP_proxy was ineffectual. Becka >From: Bart Lateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: still installing DBI 1.20 on Win 2000 >Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 01:01:49 +0100 > >On Wed, 02 Jan 2002 20:18:21 +0000, Becka Louden wrote: > > >I had abandoned that route because I couldn't get through the firewall. > >You can always try to download the files via a browser, and do a local >install. Wit hMSIE5.5: > > * Go to <http://www.xmlproj.com/PPM/>, rightclick on the PPD file, >choose "save as", and save it. > * Save the file from ><http://www.xmlproj.com/PPM/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/DBI.tar.gz> in a >simple position relative to the PPD file. > * edit the PPD file in a text editor, and make the HREF attribute for >the CODEBASE tag a relative RL, indicating the relative position of the >..tar.gz file. > * open a DOS window, CHDIR to the directory containing the PPD file, >and now instruct PPM to install DBI. > >-- > Bart. _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
