This Post is strictly not Web 2.0. I had to write this to let others know how top install PPM [Perl Package Manager, GUI Interface] without the ActiveState Login. If you’ve been using ActiveState Perl, then you could have easily upgraded using ppm on the command prompt. However, when I tried, I got the following error message
Installing package …
Downloading Tree-Builder-0.1.0 … redirect
Downloading Tree-Builder-0.1.0 … failed 401 Authorization Required
Installing package failedERROR: 401 Authorization Required
Now just try to compile the perl file using the command perl -c test.pl and you will end up getting reference to packages which are not installed. See Scrreen Shot Below,
Goto CPAN and download the TAR of the same. Untar using WinRAR or any other utility and now browse to the Path which was shown in the error message when you compiled the file and arrange the directory / files of the package onto those locations and you are all set. In the above Example all I had to do is goto perl/lib/HTML and stick in Dombo.pm and similarly the other file.
Now re-open the command prompt and try to compile the error must vanish. Atleast it did for me.
Can somebody tell me how to Authenticate myself using PPM ? Sorry have no time and slogging tonight to complete a project.
Thanks.