Thanks very much, Thomas. You're right that it's not a very helpful error message. However, I *think* that the problem, as you pointed towards, is in one of the post-install scripts; the one for XML-SAX missed some proxy settings that were required to work within a proxy environment. I, hopefully, fixed this - please let me know if you encounter similar problems in the future. Also, please let me know how you get on with PAR-WebStart; I'm curious to see how it works for others. Thanks. And sorry it was such a pain to install, but as you say, your experiences will help others :) #### C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Benutzername\Desktop\catalyst\hopstst>ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/PAR-WebStart.ppd PPM::PPD::init: not a PPD and not a file: IP-CONF Servermanager .......etc (full error reproduced below) #### use strict; use warnings; use Test::More qw(no_plan); use_ok('Module::Signature'); use_ok('File::Which'); use_ok('PAR'); use_ok('Archive::Zip'); use_ok('XML::SAX::ExpatXS'); #### ........ stuff installing ok... ........ Install 'Archive-Zip' version 1.16 in ActivePerl 5.8.2.808. ==================== Successfully installed Archive-Zip version 1.16 in ActivePerl 5.8.2.808. PPM::PPD::init: not a PPD and not a file: IP-CONF Servermanager
 
 

!! Fehler 404 !!

 

Die Aufgerufene URL ist nicht vorhanden !

Pr³fen Sie Ihre Eingabe oder I hren Link.

 

© 2005 IP-CONF Servermanager

 

When I put that install url into my browser trying to figure out what the heck was going on, I got PAR-WebStart Perl implementation of Java's WebStart Randy Kobes <r.kobes@uwinnipeg.ca>