On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:13:35 -0500, "Gregory, Carlton"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Good Evening,
G'day!
> I am trying to use PPM but cannot get past some errors.
>
> I have looked at the docs and have boiled down some problems.
>
> My Perl is 5.8.0 build 805. I installed the Perl Dev Kit also. I also
>added the HTTP_proxy, HTTP_proxy_user, and HTTP_proxy_pass environment
>variables.
>
> Despite this it seems like it would not make a connection because I
>still recieve the error:
> C:\Perl\site\lib\PPM>ppm search DBI
> Searching in Active Repositories
> Error: No valid repositories: Error: 501 Protocol scheme '' is not
>supported at C:/Perl/site/lib/PPM/Repository.pm line 84
Could you send me these 2 files from your installation:
C:\Perl\site\lib\ppm-conf\cmdline.cfg
C:\Perl\site\lib\ppm-conf\repositories.cfg
I think the problem is with one of the repositories you are trying to use.
I would also like to know *which* proxy server (brand, version, platform)
you are using. There seem to be some issues with proxy servers and SOAP
packets. We are looking into this, but haven't found a real pattern yet.
[...]
> I thought it was beacuse connection was made through the proxy
>automatically via a script. Nevertheless it does not work.
>
> So I went to
><http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActivePerl/PPM/>
> downloaded DBD-Oracle. Extracted into a directory i made named
>DBDORACLE. Went to the command shell and went to that
>
> directory. I typed ppm install dbd-oracle.ppd just as the README
>said to do and I got this:
>
> C:\Perl\DBDOracle>ppm install dbd-oracle.ppd
> Error: No valid repositories: Error: 501 Protocol scheme '' is not
>supported at C:/Perl/site/lib/PPM/Repository.pm line 84
Hmm, this definitely shouldn't happen with a local install.
> So THEN I looked through the PPM doc on ActiveState's site and I
>saw something that said you could generate a minimal ppm.xml file if the one
>you had is corrupted. I never got a message that it was corrupted so I found
>the file and it was ZERO bytes in size. So as the documentation said I went
>to the directory where the file was located and typed
>
> ppm genconfig > ppm.xml and I got
>
> Unknown or ambiguous command 'genconfig'; type 'help' for commands.
With ActivePerl 5.8, the PPM program is actually PPM3, and the old
(deprecated) PPM is now available as PPM2. Try:
ppm2 genconfig > ppm.xml
If you still can't get it to work, see if you can at least use PPM2
instead. But please let me know what happens so that we can gather some
more information about the proxy issue.
Thanks,
-Jan
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