Your search engine of choice would have made short work of finding you the answer to that
When I use my preferred search engine (google) to search for "pdd file" (as you recommended to the OP) it opens up up with:
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A file with the PDD file extension is most likely an Adobe PhotoDeluxe Image file that was created with Adobe PhotoDeluxe. This type of image format is similar to Adobe's PSD format in that they can both store images, lines, text, and layers.May 12, 2017
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If I google for "ppd file" (which, I think, was probably your intended advice) I get:
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PostScript Printer Description (PPD) files are created by vendors to describe the entire set of features and capabilities available for their PostScript printers. A PPD also contains the PostScript code (commands) used to invoke features for the print job.
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I don't really see how either of those searches results in anything useful for the OP.
(Admittedly, there are other hits listed, but they all seem to elaborate on the initial advice ... for the first page of results, at least.)
In an earlier post, you wrote "Since you've used ActiveState it'll be where ever the ppd file installed it to" ... but those ppd files don't contain any info regarding the destination of the files. They merely determine which tar.gz file will be downloaded from the server.
The actual destination is determined by the PPM utility itself, in accordance with the contents of the gzipped blib (ie the tar.gz file) that was downloaded.
So, don't be too hard on the OP.
Cheers,
Rob
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"I don't really see how either of those searches results in anything useful for the OP. "
Obviously context is key, this is true for any kind of search. OP knows they are dealing with ActiveState and Perl, adding either of those two words finds what is required, ActiveState documentation and so fourth.
"but those ppd files don't contain any info regarding the destination of the files."
They contain a list of files which will be installed, OP could have searched their file system to find all instance of these files, thus providing them with the information they require, the path to the AS version of pp. Alternatively they could make life easier on themselves and take the advice given the last time the posted about module installation woes (and earlier in this thread), setup a sane environment, which would have prevented the whole issue.
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OP knows they are dealing with ActiveState and Perl, adding either of those two words finds what is required
Oh, yes - searching for "ActiveState ppd file" produces much more promising results.
They contain a list of files which will be installed
Are you sure about that ?
The ppd files that I create for MS Windows ppm packages certainly don't contain any such info, and I'm of the opinion (without actually having gone to the trouble of recently checking) that the ppd files provided (for Windows) by ActiveState are also devoid of such info.
Admittedly, we are talking about Macs here - and I have to confess that I don't know what the ppd files for that OS look like. I see no reason to think that the Mac ppd files would be significantly different ... but , it *is* Macs after all, and that makes speculation a very risky business indeed.
Cheers,
Rob
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