Thanks Ilya.. I did install locally. I can't understand quite what I should have done with the firewall. We don't have a proxy, but the documentation on Firewalls, Proxies, and PPM, really only refers to proxies. I tried using the firewall's address in the suggested environment variables, but that had no effect. But now I have a workaround, and I can be happy with that. Thanks!
Becka In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... > >Don't worry about setting the proxy if you will install locally. For proxy, >you will need the proxy server as well as the port. > >http://proxy.proxyserver.com:83 > >Ilya > >-----Original Message----- >From: Becka Louden >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 1/3/02 11:54 AM >Subject: Re: still installing DBI 1.20 on Win 2000 > >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
