Hi Sam
thanks for answering.
Your Idea seemed interesting and  I tryed to ..
  First:          Install perl with the 'repair' option
  Second:   Trying my Installations again
  Third:          Install perl with modify-option
  Fourth:         Trying my Installations again

My Installation-Results where always the same (I'm sad).

As you can see down on the list (Nr. 3 and 4). The Error-Message 'no
suitable target....'
occurs only when I have
             -         'PPM2-Repository' active
and      -        when I call the packagage, which I wan't to install by
it's name. (Nr. 3 on my list)

If I do a search before and then call 'install 1'   ->  the error-message is
different (Nr. 4 on my list)

Do you still think it has something to do with not finding my
perl-Installation location,
(or even with the fact, that I have chosen D:\... for my perl-home instead
of C:\ ...)?
I could try to first remove perl at all and install it again .
Ok, so far so good, but I have at the moment not the time for testing such
things.

Armin



Installation-Tests

1.
ppm>  install DBI-Wrap
Error: Failed to download URL http://ppm.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zi-
ps/8xx-builds-only/Windows/DBI-Wrap.ppd: 404 Not Found
ppm>  rep
Repositories:
[1] ActiveState Package Repository
[2] REP_58XX
[ ] ActiveState PPM2 Repository
[ ] REP_50
[ ] REP_56

2.
ppm>  rep off 2
Repositories:
[1] ActiveState Package Repository
[ ] ActiveState PPM2 Repository
[ ] REP_50
[ ] REP_56
[ ] REP_58XX
ppm>  install DBI-Wrap
Error: PPD for 'DBI-Wrap.ppd' could not be found.

3.
ppm>  rep on  ActiveState PPM2 Repository
Repositories:
[1] ActiveState Package Repository
[2] ActiveState PPM2 Repository
[ ] REP_50
[ ] REP_56
[ ] REP_58XX
ppm>  install DBI-Wrap
Error: no suitable installation target found for package DBI-Wrap.

4.
ppm>  rep
Repositories:
[1] ActiveState Package Repository
[2] ActiveState PPM2 Repository
[ ] REP_50
[ ] REP_56
[ ] REP_58XX
ppm>  search DBI-Wrap
Searching in Active Repositories
  1. DBI-Wrap     [1.~ An object oriented wrapper aroun~
ppm>  install 1
Package 1:
Error: PPD for 'DBI-Wrap.ppd' could not be found.


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Hi Armin,

I've been watching this thread for a few days now and, although I don't
know the exact answer I do have a hunch.

If we can assume that the "installation target" in the error message is
the Perl installation on your computer then it seems that PPM is finding
the module repositories just fine (since it can find modules when
searching) but doesn't know where to install the modules on your
computer.  I don't know why this would happen but perhaps your Perl
install got messed up somehow and now PPM doesn't know where your Perl
installation is on your hard drive.

Perhaps if you re-run the Perl installation things might come good.

Hope this helps,
Sam

armin.nolte@[...].de wrote:

> Hi,
> so know a added a new repository named REP_58XX an searching a Modul
> is ok but not installing it? I have perl Version 5.8 installed. Can
someone
> tell
> me what is the problem?
> 
> Armin
> 
> So here are my results:
> ppm> search String-Approx
> Searching in Active Repositories
>   1. String-Approx [3.19] (none)
>   2. String-Approx [3.20] (none)
> 
> 
> ppm> rep
> Repositories:
> [1] ActiveState PPM2 Repository
> [2] ActiveState Package Repository
> [3] REP_58XX
> 
> 
> ppm> install String-Approx
> Error: no suitable installation target found for package String-Approx.
> 
> 
> ppm> rep desc 3
> Describing Active Repository 3:
>     Name: REP_58XX
> Location:
> http://ppm.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/8xx-builds-only/Windows/
>     Type: Webpage
> 
> 
> 
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