Problem while installing through PPM.

[SK]

Hello,

I am facing a problem while installing DateTime module through PPM.
when i do a
ppm> search DateTime

i get the following result

1. Bundle-DateTime [0.11] Bundle with all DateTime related modules
2. DateTime [0.1701] DateTime base objects
3. DateTime-Calendar-C~ [0.02] Coptic Calendar System.
.................
...................
..................
Which indiactes it can find DateTime module. But now when i try to install
using

ppm> install DateTime

I get a message
Error: no suitable installation target found for package DateTime.

the repositories in which PPM is searching are

ppm> rep
Repositories:
[1] ActiveState Package Repository
[2] ActiveState PPM2 Repository

I have installed other modules from the ppm but this specific module is
createing some problems.

Kindly suggest.

BTW: i am using ActivePerl 5.6.1

thanks and regards
SK

[Bob Walton]

SK wrote:

In the past, I have run into the same problem if I installed a newer
version of ActiveState Perl on top of an older version. Any chance you
did that? Uninstalling the old version and getting rid of the entire
Perl file hierarchy, then installing the newer version of Perl got rid
of that problem 100%.

--
Bob Walton
Email: http://bwalton.com/cgi-bin/emailbob.pl

[[JDM]]

> Hello,
>
> I am facing a problem while installing DateTime module through PPM.
> when i do a
> ppm> search DateTime
>
> i get the following result
>
> 1. Bundle-DateTime [0.11] Bundle with all DateTime related modules
> 2. DateTime [0.1701] DateTime base objects
> 3. DateTime-Calendar-C~ [0.02] Coptic Calendar System.
> .................
> ....................

> ...................

> Which indiactes it can find DateTime module. But now when i try to install
> using
>
> ppm> install DateTime
>
> I get a message
> Error: no suitable installation target found for package DateTime.
>
> the repositories in which PPM is searching are
>
> ppm> rep
> Repositories:
> [1] ActiveState Package Repository
> [2] ActiveState PPM2 Repository
>
> I have installed other modules from the ppm but this specific module is
> createing some problems.
>
> Kindly suggest.
>
> BTW: i am using ActivePerl 5.6.1
>
> thanks and regards
> SK
>

You might like using tk-ppm.. its pretty allright :-)

Also here is a list of repositories that comes from a cool module called
PPM::Repositories

location => 'http://log4perl.sourceforge.net/ppm',
Type => 'Webpage',
Active => 1,
Notes => 'log4perl (pure perl)',
PerlV => [ ],
PerlO => ['perl'],
},
esoft => {
location => 'ftp://ftp.esoftmatic.com/outgoing/DBI',
Type => 'Webpage',
Active => 1,
Notes => 'DBI, DBD-Oracle, DBD-ODBC for 5.8',
PerlV => [ 5.8 ],
PerlO => ['MSWin32'],
},
savage => {
location => 'http://savage.net.au/Perl-modules/ppm',
Type => 'Webpage',
Active => 1,
Notes => 'CGI::Explorer, DBIx::*, etc',
PerlV => [ 5.8 ],
PerlO => ['MSWin32'],
},
spurkis => {
location => 'http://www.epn.ml.org/~spurkis/Agent/repository',
Type => '??',
Active => 0,
Notes => 'GONE FOREVER',
PerlV => [],
PerlO => [],
},
crazy => {
location => 'http://crazyinsomniac.perlmonk.org/perl/ppm',
Type => 'Webpage',
Active => 1,
Notes => 'Maintainer takes requests',
PerlV => [ 5.6 ],
PerlO => ['MSWin32'],
},
crazy58 => {
Name => 'crazy',
location => 'http://crazyinsomniac.perlmonk.org/perl/ppm/5.8',
Type => 'Webpage',
Active => 1,
Notes => 'Maintainer takes requests',
PerlV => [ 5.8 ],
PerlO => ['MSWin32'],
},
theory => {
location => 'http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/cgi-bin/ppmserver?urn:/PPMServer',
Type => 'PPMServer',
Active => 1,
Notes => 'Get your mod_perl(s) here',
PerlV => [ 5.6 ],
PerlO => ['MSWin32'],
},
theoryS => {
location => 'http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppmpackages',
Type => 'Webpage',
Active => 1,
Notes => 'Get your mod_perl(s) here(SLOWER)',
PerlV => [ 5.6 ],
PerlO => ['MSWin32'],
},
theory58 => {
location => 'http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/cgi-bin/ppmserver?urn:/PPMServer58',
Type => 'PPMServer',
Active => 1,
Notes => 'Get your mod_perl(s) here',
PerlV => [ 5.8 ],
PerlO => ['MSWin32'],
},
theory58S => {
location => 'http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms',
Type => 'Webpage',
Active => 1,
Notes => 'Get your mod_perl(s) here(SLOWER)',
PerlV => [ 5.8 ],
PerlO => ['MSWin32'],
},
devhelp => {
location => 'http://ppd.develop-help.com/ppd',
Type => 'Webpage',
Active => 1,
Notes => 'Get your Apache::Session here',
PerlV => [ 5.6 ],
PerlO => ['MSWin32'],
},
dada => {
location => 'http://dada.perl.it/PPM',
Type => 'Webpage',
Active => 1,
Notes => 'Get your Win32::API here',
PerlV => [ 5.5, 5.6 ],
PerlO => ['MSWin32'],
},
rto => {
location => 'http://rto.dk/packages',
Type => 'Webpage',
Active => 0,
Notes => 'GONE (forget what was there)',
PerlV => [ 5.6 ],
PerlO => [],
},
jenda => {
location => 'http://jenda.krynicky.cz/perl',
Type => 'Webpage or PPMServer?',
Active => 1,
Notes => 'AWSOME (tons of Win32 related stuff by him)',
PerlV => [ 5.6, 5.8 ],
PerlO => ['MSWin32'],
},
xray => {
location => 'http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/~ach/ptk/ppm',
Type => '??',
Active => 0,
Notes => 'long gone',
PerlV => [ 5.6 ],
PerlO => [],
},
openi => {
location => 'http://openinteract.sourceforge.net/ppmpackages',
Type => 'Webpage',
Active => 1,
Notes => 'Template Toolkit!!!',
PerlV => [ 5.6, 5.8 ],
PerlO => ['MSWin32'],
},

roth => {
location => 'http://www.roth.net/perl/packages',
Type => 'Webpage',
Active => 1,
Notes => 'More Win32:: stuff',
PerlV => [ 5.5, 5.6, 5.8],
PerlO => ['MSWin32'],
},

sablot => {
location => 'http://ppm.gingerall.cz',
Type => 'Webpage',
Active => 1,
Notes => 'Get your XML::Sablotron here',
PerlV => [ 5.5, 5.6, 5.8 ],
PerlO => ['MSWin32'],
},
perlxml => {
location => 'http://www.perlxml.net/PPM',
Type => 'Webpage',
Active => 1,
Notes => 'Get your libxml-perl here. Please note that this is known to disappear for a few days and come back.',
PerlV => [ 5.6, 5.8 ],
PerlO => ['MSWin32'],
},
datetime => {
location => 'http://datetime.perl.org/download',
Type => 'Webpage',
Active => 1,
Notes => 'Get your DateTime modules here',
PerlV => [ 5.6, 5.8 ],
PerlO => ['MSWin32'],
},
);

with tk-ppm it is very easy to add these urls and install packages.

[ko]

Default@IO_Error_1011101.xyz wrote:

[snip]

> You might like using tk-ppm.. its pretty allright :-)
>
> Also here is a list of repositories that comes from a cool module called
> PPM::Repositories

[snip list of package repositories]

Not saying one way or the other whether all of the repositories you
listed are trustworthy or not, but the ActiveState documentation has a
specific list of package repositories, which is available (default
install) at C:/Perl/html/faq/ActivePerl-faq2.html, under the heading
'Where are the package repositories?'

HTH - keith

[Randy Kobes]

"SK" <sk_i...@rediffmail.com> wrote in message
news:83dee709.0311...@posting.google.com...

> Hello,
>
> I am facing a problem while installing DateTime module through PPM.
> when i do a
> ppm> search DateTime
>
> i get the following result
>
> 1. Bundle-DateTime [0.11] Bundle with all DateTime related modules
> 2. DateTime [0.1701] DateTime base objects
> 3. DateTime-Calendar-C~ [0.02] Coptic Calendar System.
> .................

> Which indiactes it can find DateTime module. But now when i try to
install
> using
>
> ppm> install DateTime
>
> I get a message
> Error: no suitable installation target found for package DateTime.

Generally this means that, while it found a DateTime package, it
wasn't for your Perl build (ActiveState maintains a number
ppm packages for different OSs). A look at
http://ppm.activestate.com/BuildStatus/5.6-D.html
indicates that building this particular package failed on Windows.

best regards,
randy kobes