I have a local repository with a package.xml file (contents shown at the 
end). When I select Bioperl v1.5.2 for installation it lists all the 
dependencies and doesn't show an error. However, when I try to run the 
install I get errors when PPM trys to install some packages because it 
thinks they are in a different repository to what they actually are. For 
example:

Downloading GD-2.35...done
ppm install failed: No file at 
C:\repository\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8\XML-Writer-0.601.tar.gz

There is no suggestion that XML-Writer is in my local repository! There 
are 2 packages found by PPM4 one in the ActiveState repo and one in the 
Bribes repo. However, if I search for and install the module separately, 
the Bioperl installation progresses a little further, but stalls again, 
with a similar error:

Downloading GD-2.35...done
Downloading DBD-mysql-3.0007...done
Downloading XML-DOM-XPath-0.12...done
ppm install failed: No file at 
C:\repository\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8\Graph-0.79.tar.gz

Again, this is not in my local repository.

Any idea's what's going on here - am I doing something totally wrong?

Thanks
Nathan






-- start package.xml --
<REPOSITORY> 

<SOFTPKG NAME="bioperl" VERSION="1.5.2" DATE="2006-09-25"> 
    <PROVIDE NAME="bioperl::" VERSION="1.5.2" /> 
    <ABSTRACT> Bioinformatics Toolkit</ABSTRACT>
    <AUTHOR> Bioperl Team (bioperl-l@bioperl.org)</AUTHOR>
    <IMPLEMENTATION> 
        <ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8" /> 
        <CODEBASE HREF="bioperl-1.5.2-ppm.tar.gz" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="Ace::" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="Bio::ASN1::EntrezGene" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="BerkeleyDB::" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="Class::AutoClass" VERSION="1.01" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="Clone::" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="Convert::Binary::C" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="Data::Stag::Writer" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="DB_File::" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="DBD::mysql" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="GD::SVG" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="GD::" VERSION="1.3" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="Graph::Directed" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="HTML::Entities" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="HTML::Parser" VERSION="3.0" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="HTTP::Request::Common" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="IO::String" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="LWP::UserAgent" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="Set::Scalar" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="SOAP::Lite" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="Spreadsheet::ParseExcel" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="Storable::" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="SVG::" VERSION="2.26" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="SVG::Graph" VERSION="0.01" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="Text::Shellwords" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="XML::DOM::XPath" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="XML::Parser::PerlSAX" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="XML::SAX" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="XML::SAX::Base" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="XML::SAX::Writer" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="XML::Simple" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="XML::Twig" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="XML::Writer" VERSION="" /> 
    </IMPLEMENTATION> 
</SOFTPKG> 

<SOFTPKG NAME="GD-SVG" VERSION="0.28"> 
    <PROVIDE NAME="GD::SVG" VERSION="0.28" /> 
    <ABSTRACT> Seamlessly enable SVG output from scripts written using 
GD</ABSTRACT> 
    <AUTHOR> Todd Harris (harris@cshl.org)</AUTHOR>
    <IMPLEMENTATION> 
        <ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8" /> 
        <CODEBASE HREF="GD-SVG-0.28-ppm.tar.gz" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="GD::" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="SVG::" VERSION="" /> 
    </IMPLEMENTATION> 
</SOFTPKG> 

<SOFTPKG NAME="SVG-Graph" VERSION="0.01"> 
    <PROVIDE NAME="SVG::Graph" VERSION="0.01" /> 
    <ABSTRACT> Visualize your data in Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 
format.</ABSTRACT> 
    <AUTHOR> Allen Day (allenday@ucla.edu), Chris To 
(crsto@ucla.edu)</AUTHOR> 
    <IMPLEMENTATION> 
        <ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8" /> 
        <CODEBASE HREF="SVG-Graph-0.01-ppm.tar.gz" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="Math::Derivative" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="Math::Spline" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="SVG::" VERSION="2.27" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="Statistics::Descriptive" VERSION="2.6" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="Tree::DAG_Node" VERSION="1.04" /> 
    </IMPLEMENTATION> 
</SOFTPKG> 

<SOFTPKG NAME="Bio-ASN1-EntrezGene" VERSION="1.09"> 
    <PROVIDE NAME="Bio::ASN1::EntrezGene" VERSION="1.09" /> 
    <ABSTRACT> </ABSTRACT>
    <AUTHOR> Mingyi Liu (mingyi.liu[at]gpc-biotech.com)</AUTHOR>
    <IMPLEMENTATION> 
        <ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8" /> 
        <CODEBASE HREF="Bio-ASN1-EntrezGene-1.09-ppm.tar.gz" /> 
    </IMPLEMENTATION> 
</SOFTPKG> 

<SOFTPKG NAME="Class-AutoClass" VERSION="1.01"> 
    <PROVIDE NAME="Class::AutoClass" VERSION="1.01" /> 
    <ABSTRACT> </ABSTRACT>
    <AUTHOR> Christopher Charles Cavnor</AUTHOR>
    <IMPLEMENTATION> 
        <ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8" /> 
        <CODEBASE HREF="Class-AutoClass-1.01-ppm.tar.gz" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="IO::Scalar" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="Storable::" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="Test::Deep" VERSION="" /> 
        <REQUIRE NAME="Test::More" VERSION="" /> 
       
    </IMPLEMENTATION> 
</SOFTPKG> 

</REPOSITORY> 
-- end package.xml --
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