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Can't install DBD-ODBC

Posted by Eagle_f90 on 2008-03-03 08:01
OS: Windows Server 2003

I am running Perl 5.8.8.822 on 32-bit Windows 2003 server and when I go into PPM and search for DBD-ODBC the package is found but it can't install. THe error I get is:

DBD-ODBC marked for install
Installing package ...
Downloading DBD-ODBC-1.13 ... not found
Installing package failed

ERROR: 404 Not Found

Does anyone know where I can download DBD-ODBC so I can connect to my databases via perl?

You can always download the
MarcZ | Mon, 2008-03-03 11:00

You can always download the zip file for it and install it using PPM.

The zip file you are looking for can be found at:
(This info was copied from ActivePerl 822 help)

http://ppm.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/8xx-builds-only/Windows/DBD-...

Using Zip Files
As an alternate method for installing packages, you can download zip files for the packages that you need from http://ppm.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/. To use these files:

Unzip the package to a temporary directory.
Install the package by specifying the ppd file directly:
ppm install c:\tmp\module-name.ppd
Some modules have dependencies that may cause them to fail to install if those packages are not available in a repository that PPM is connected to. You can use the ppm describe command to see what dependencies the package has, but those packages may have their own dependencies.