>  setting the other Repositories inactive is working.

Excellent.

It sounds like your ppm configuration wants to use the ActivePerl 5.6 
repository first, then the ActivePerl 5.8 repository.  Due to the 
differences between 5.6 and 5.8, a PPM built for 5.6 cannot usually be 
used for 5.8.  ppm checks for this architecture difference in the PPD, and 
when your ActivePerl 5.8 ppm sees the String-Approxy PPD for ActivePerl 
5.6, it sees that the architectures (as far as Perl versions are 
concerned) do not match, and so it issues the "no suitable installation 
target found" message.

Arguably, ppm should be smart enough to see that this happens, and instead 
of just stopping there, it should then continue on to checking the next 
repository in your list (the ActivePerl 5.8 repository), which would then 
work.

>  Then I get search results. Installing is working (only !) when
>  I downloaded the .zip Files and extracted them on my hard-disk before.

Does this happen when only the 5.8 repository (called "ActiveState Package 
Repository" by default) is active, or when other repositories are in your 
list?

>  Is that the only possible way? I thought that downloading would not be
>  necessary and installing directly from the ActiveState's Rep. would be
>  possible.

It should be possible, yes.  Using ActivePerl 5.8 806 on a Windows box, I 
was able to do:

  ppm install String-Approx

without errors.  Hmm.  Describing the repositories there shows:

  ppm rep desc
  Describing Active Repository 1:
      ActiveState PPM2 Repository
  Location:
      http://ppm.ActiveState.com/cgibin/PPM/ppmserver-5.8-windows.pl?urn:/PPMServer
  Type:
      PPMServer 2.0

As you are using ActivePerl 5.8, you probably should configure ppm so as 
not to use the 5.6 repository.

Hope this helps,
TJ

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