Re: Problem In installing DBI in Win NT machine
ppm gets the archive(s) from activestate.com. so, you have to be connected to internet during installation... - Original Message - From: Abhra [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Abhra [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 4:59 PM Subject: Problem In installing DBI in Win NT machine Hello I am a beginner in Perl . I have installed Active perl latest version in my Win NT machine. I am trying to install DBI module in my machine by both ppm and manual method. While installing I am facing following problem 1. while trying to install DBI in WIN NT machine by ppm I gave following command ppm ppm Install DBI It gives error: Could not locate a PPD file for the package BDI. Please note during installation internet connection was on and done proxy setting. 2. While trying to install by manual ,i have down loaded DBI madules from CPAN and gave following command perl Makefile.pl nmake it gives error : The name specified is not recognised as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file Please note: In my machine namke is available not dmake Can any body suggest me the remedy for the following problem and how i can install DBI in my window Nt machine Thanking in advance Abhra
Re: Problem In installing DBI in Win NT machine
On 27 Sep 2001, at 19:29, Abhra wrote: Hello I am a beginner in Perl . I have installed Active perl latest version in my Win NT machine. I am trying to install DBI module in my machine by both ppm and manual method. While installing I am facing following problem 1. while trying to install DBI in WIN NT machine by ppm I gave following command ppm ppm Install DBI It gives error: Could not locate a PPD file for the package BDI. Please note during installation internet connection was on and done proxy setting. If the error message was paisted from ppm's output, there was a typo (BDI instead of DBI). Configure your internet connection not to use a http proxy. Note that there is probably software running on your machine acting like a local http proxy and you are not aware of it ( a few months ago i was almost at loss of my senses, because ppm stopped to work without any evident reason, until I discovered that it was my ad filter which I had placed in the startup folder for some reason). If you, for some reason, want to use a http proxy, did you follow the respective instructions in the ppm manual (setting the environment variables HTTP_proxy and probably HTTP_proxy_user and HTTP_proxy_pass)? 2. While trying to install by manual ,i have down loaded DBI madules from CPAN and gave following command perl Makefile.pl nmake it gives error : The name specified is not recognised as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file Please note: In my machine namke is available not dmake You did not tell us after which command you got this error (after the perl Makefile.pl or after the nmake). Check that both are in your path. Have you a got C compiler installed (the DBI contains embedded C code which needs to be copmiled)? Note that it may be necessary to build your whole perl installation from the sources with your compiler... Although it may make one feel somewhat dependent on ActiveState, as soon as you are working with their Perl distribution, always try to install modules with ppm as long as there are ppm packages for it. This is the case for DBI. HTH Bodo
Re: Problem In installing DBI in Win NT machine
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 19:29:29 +0530, Abhra wrote: 1. while trying to install DBI in WIN NT machine by ppm I gave following command ppm ppm Install DBI It gives error: Could not locate a PPD file for the package BDI. Please note during installation internet connection was on and done proxy setting. You can still use PPM with downloaded archives. You need both a ppd file and the .tar.gz file, the ppd file must point to your local copy of the .tar.gz file (preferably with a relative URL). You can get a ZIP from Activestate's site with both the .tar.gz file (actually, 3 of them -- one for each target platform) and an adjusted ppd file. Unzip (but don't ungzip-untar), and try again from within the directory you unzipped them into. http://www.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/6xx-builds-only/ -- Bart.
