I'm trying to install Perl on WinXP and although the installation goes fine, I cannot get PP
M working. I've tried both 5.10 and 5.8 but get the same results so I don't think it's a ver
sion issue.

When I run PPM, the GUI comes up but never really finishes loading. It says "Synchronizing D
atabase ... done" but there are no packages listed in the main body of the interface, none o
f the buttons respond and the cursor is an hourglass. I left it running overnight just in ca
se it took a long time the first time in but it was still like that the next morning.

Trying to run ppm at the command line, with ppm-shell, I don't get much farther, although I 
do get an error message:

ppm search failed: Proxy must be specified as absolute URI; '10.1.' is not

OK, so I issue this:

set http_proxy=http://10.1.137.73:8080

but that doesn't change anything. I get the same error message (with '10.1.' at the end).

Oddly, when I download and unzip a package (DBI, to be precise), I still cannot install it. 
When I issue the command to install, I get the same error message as above:

C:\Perl\bin> ppm install s:\source\perl\DBI-1.602\DBI.ppd
ppm install failed: Proxy must be specified as absolute URI; '10.1.' is not

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? It's been a while since I installed Perl but it never
 used to be this hard.

-- 
Henry

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