I have, over time, figured out the incantations for PPM to set up my repository list, and I know to search first, then install what was found to avoid ambiguity. And I know to check the version of the packages from different repositories.
That's a lot to teach someone that doesn't care a bit about Perl, but wants to use a program I wrote.... which needs a few extra packages installed...
Seems like somewhere in an old dusty mailing list, I once saw some syntax for installing a particular package that might be at hand in a file pair (one .ppd, one .tar.gz). Something like
ppm install f:\package.ppd
When I tried the above (Perl 5.8.0 build 805), I got:
Error: Package 'f:\package' not found. Please 'search' for it first.
When I tried
ppm install f:\package
Searching for 'f:\package' returned no results. Try a broader search first.
Just the fact that it takes a pair of files makes it hard, because you have to either have them "download these two files independently and put them in the same directory (or worse, with some .ppd files, a specially named directory with lots of "gibberish" in the name).... or you tell them to download a .zip, unpack it into a new directory, then start a command prompt (what's a command prompt?), chdir to that new directory(what's chdir?), and issue commands:
ppm ppm> rep add my . ppm> search package-name ppm> install <number*> ppm> rep del my ppm> exit
* <number> is the number from the frist column in the row containing "package-name" in the second column and "[sum.ver]" in the third column
What am I missing? What is the easiest way to tell a barely literate person how to install a package that isn't in Active State's repository?
-- Glenn ===== If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, try taking better care of your own side. -- Unknown
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