I seem to remember Jan saying they were no longer doing the repositories,
maybe it was just for perl 5.10.   You can always use the CPAN perl module
on the command line.... 

-Wayne

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InterSystems USA, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: activeperl-bounces@[...].com
[mailto:activeperl-bounces@[...].com] On Behalf Of Henry
Hartley
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 1:08 PM
To: activeperl@[...].com
Subject: Problems with PPM

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

When I run PPM, the GUI comes up but never really finishes loading. It says
"Synchronizing Database ... done" but there are no packages listed in the
main body of the interface, none of the buttons respond and the cursor is an
hourglass. I left it running overnight just in case 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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