Rocco, Thanks for your reply again. I am a bit confused with your questions, though. In my previous message I already stated that I tried ppm and ppm3 and I also listed some of the error messages I was getting. I don't think doing it from the ppm shell would change the situation, because the execution seems to be working fine and the errors are more file version or existence related.
I tried another thing from home last night (since part of the problem was that I am behind a firewall at work). I uninstalled everything, even PERL itself, and started from scratch. First I put back PERL 5.6.1.633, and then I did exactly what the poe installation web page says. C:\> ppm install http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/poe/POE.ppd Most of it seemed to work, but I was getting "Failed" messages for version problems, or similar (didn't record them all). The end result was that I got some .packlist files (for some of the optional items) which were normal, but the POE .packlist file was still zero bytes (empty) because some of the required items failed. Could the owners of the POE installation try this and make sure that if something else is required other than a fresh install of PERL that it would be listed in the instructions? This is getting very frustrating... Thanks, Arpad ================================================================ -----Original Message----- From: Rocco Caputo [mailto:troc@;netrus.net] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 8:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Need basic installation help On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:56:47AM -0700, Muranyi, Arpad wrote: > > Then I downloaded POE.ppd file and typed "ppm install POE.ppd" > in a DOS window. After the prompt came back I looked at the > ..packlist file, but it was 0 bytes long. When I run the poe-math3.pl > file that is on the web I get a "Can't locate POE.pm" message. > I tried several things I could think of, but no success. I > searched the entire disk for POE.pm and it is not there. I noticed > that if I "unzip" the .tar.gz file it is in there, so I suspect > that the installer doesn't succeed with the uncompression step. > > Could someone please tell me what I need to do to install POE > correctly? What about just PPM, then "install POE.ppd" from the ppm prompt? Also, what about doing it with PPM3? Are there any error messages during the install? Could you submit a bug report to ActiveState? I'd be surprised if they never heard of it. http://bugs.activestate.com/enter_bug.cgi -- Rocco Caputo / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / poe.perl.org / poe.sf.net
