Hi Randy, I tried doing what u suggested.This is what i did: (1)downloaded HTML-Embperl.ppd to C:\My Documents (2)downloaded HTML-Embperl.tar.gz to C:\My Documents (3)Removed any reference to 'File-Spec' (4)<CODEBASE HREF="HTML-Embperl.tar.gz" /> since both files were in the same directory (5)Added C:\My Documents as one more ppm repository and i set it active (6)When i did a search on 'HTML*' it listed the file correctly (7)when i said install 1(which corresponds to HTML-Embperl)i got the following error
Error: can't create temporary directory 'C:/windows/TEMP/PPM::Result=HASH(0x23145c0)-1608669': No such file or directory What am i doing wrong? Ram -----Original Message----- From: Randy Kobes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 7:33 AM To: Gerald Richter Cc: rmanoharan; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Error during ppm install on win 98. File-Spec not found (was: Need help) On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Gerald Richter wrote: > I forward your mail to the Embperl mailing list, where the right place for > asking such questions is. I currently don't know what's going wrong here, > but Randy who creates the ppm packages is listening there... > > > > > Iam trying to download and install HTML-embperl.Iam running win 98 with > > active state perl. > > When i run "install" from ppm i got the following message > > "Error: Package 'File-Spec' cannot be found on the server" I'm puzzled too about this ... File-Spec is in ActiveState's ppm repository, and in any case, I think it's included in ActivePerl. So I don't know why it's getting confused - it may have to do with some quirk of your setup, as others haven't run into this problem (as far as I know). I'll look at this some more on the weekend, but in the meantime, what you could do is download HTML-Embperl.ppd and x86/HTML-Embperl.tar.gz from http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppmpackages manually, edit the .ppd file to reflect the local location of the .tar.gz file, remove the dependency line in the .ppd file referring to File-Spec, and then do 'ppm install HTML-Embperl.ppd'. best regards, randy kobes --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
