Contributed by Buckaroo Buddha
on May 18, 2000 at 22:00 UTC
Q&A
> programs and processes
Description:
I've downloaded perl Tk.zip from Activestate's
website (beacause i'm behind a firewall)
and followed the instructions in the readme
(type "ppm install Tk.ppd" in the current directory)
Error installing package 'tk.ppd': Could not locate
a PPM binary of 'tk.ppd' for this platform
Answer: Perl Upgrades: How do I install a new package, under Windows, while 'Firewalled'
contributed by planetscape See also:
A Guide to Installing Modules
A guide to installing modules for Win32
A Practical Guide to Compiling C based Modules under ActiveState using Microsoft C++
Free MSVC tools + Activestate to compile CPAN Modules
Re: perl -MCPAN on windows: Should I even try?
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| Answer: Perl Upgrades: How do I install a new package, under Windows, while 'Firewalled'
contributed by misty My answer above can be ignored. I looked at some
*.ppd files of other packages, and found that those
that contain the line <ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-object" />
do not install (same error), however when I remove
that line from a *.ppd file, packages install
without any problems using the instructions in the readme. | Answer: Perl Upgrades: How do I install a new package, under Windows, while 'Firewalled'
contributed by Buckaroo Buddha
<quote>
ppm install --location=your_package_location PACKAGE
</quote>
yes, i tried this but under windows
it tells me that it can't find the binary
for this package
(probably related to the lack of CHMOD in windows)
| Answer: Perl Upgrades: How do I install a new package, under Windows, while 'Firewalled'
contributed by misty This question seems being a bit irrelevant to this
section, anyway here is my try to answer it:
did you try using ppm install --location=your_package_location PACKAGE
| Answer: Perl Upgrades: How do I install a new package, under Windows, while 'Firewalled'
contributed by softworkz That's one thing I've learned about installing
these modules, there's more than one way to do it!
Reading the readme files helps sometimes.
But when in doubt, use ppm!
c:\perl\site\lib
ppm
ppm>set repository ach http://www.ray.mpe.mpg.de/~ach/ptk/ppm
ppm>install tk-pod
THAT'S IT! Have fun!
| Answer: Perl Upgrades: How do I install a new package, under Windows, while 'Firewalled'
contributed by chromatic I've had good luck setting an environment variable for my proxy server:
set HTTP_proxy=http://proxy:8080
Do that and try PPM again. | Answer: Perl Upgrades: How do I install a new package, under Windows, while 'Firewalled'
contributed by ajt There are at least two ways to install modules if you don't have direct access to ActiveState because of a firewall.
Download nmake from Microsoft it's free, and then grab the module from CPAN and build as normal. This doesn't always work so there is option 2.
Grab the PPD from ActiveState, and unzip it onto a local webserver, and then set the repository option to your local server.
I use both options at work, as I can't configure PPM to use the Proxy (It's a silly M$ Proxy), CPAN where possible, and if it's has a binary component then download and extract to local server.
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