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PPM Firewall problems

Posted by jeffg on 2007-02-20 09:50
OS: All / Any | Product: ActivePerl
Question: 

When I try to install a ppm package I get this error:

Downloading ActiveState Package Repository packlist...failed 500
Can't connect to ppm4.activestate.com:80 (connect: Unknown error)

Answer: 

It looks like your local network firewall or Proxy is preventing you from connecting with our ppm servers. Instructions on how to configure Proxy authentication are available here:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePerl/faq/ActivePerl-faq2.htm...

Alternatively, you can download zip packages for the modules you need from:

http://ppm.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/

- first unzip the package to a temporary directory
- next, install the package by specifying the ppd file directly:

ppm install c:\tmp\module-name.ppd

Please note that some modules have dependencies and may fail to install because of this. It would be helpful to, on an internet-connected machine, use ppm's 'tree' command to see what dependencies there are:

ppm> tree Date-Calc
====================
Date-Calc 5.3
\__Bit-Vector 0.0
====================

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jagbhise | Fri, 2009-05-01 14:37

Hi, I installed the Active Perl 5.10 on the windows 2003 server and server is not connected to internet so 500 ppm packages are missing.So can some one let me know if these packages are missing what issue we might face?or any work around for that?
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