PPM problems

[David McDivitt]

I read what I could find about package importing prior to posting. When I
typed:

ppm install DBI

I received an error and what I read indicated it was because of our
firewall. I displayed connection properties in internet explorer and found
the following:

a03.zzzz.zzzz.zz.us:8080

The following environment variable was added to Win2000:

set HTTP_PROXY=a03.zzzz.zzzz.zz.us:8080

Now I the following error with PPM:

Error: No valid repositories: Error: 501 Protocol scheme
'a03.zzzz.zzzz.zz.us' is not supported Error: 501 Protocol
scheme 'a03.zzzz.zzzz.zz.us' is not supported

DBI.zip was downloaded from ActivePerl and unzipped into a folder honoring
folder names in the zip file. When I type the following:

ppm install DBI.ppd

I still get the internet error above. I would like to know two things.
First, how do I get rid of the internet error so I don't have to download
stuff. Second, why is it trying to use the internet if I invoked PPM from
within the directory I unzipped the files. Thanks

 

[D Borland]

Does your firewall require a username and password, if so i believe you need
to set HTTP_proxy_user and HTTP_proxy_pass

If that isn't it you can try here, were you'll see many people seem to
suffer from ppm http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Browse/Threaded/ppm

Hope tat helps you

Dagmar

 

[Bob Walton]

I read what I could find about package importing prior to posting. When I
typed:

ppm install DBI

I received an error and what I read indicated it was because of our
firewall. I displayed connection properties in internet explorer and found
the following:

a03.zzzz.zzzz.zz.us:8080

The following environment variable was added to Win2000:

set HTTP_PROXY=a03.zzzz.zzzz.zz.us:8080

Now I the following error with PPM:

Error: No valid repositories: Error: 501 Protocol scheme
'a03.zzzz.zzzz.zz.us' is not supported Error: 501 Protocol
scheme 'a03.zzzz.zzzz.zz.us' is not supported

DBI.zip was downloaded from ActivePerl and unzipped into a folder honoring
folder names in the zip file. When I type the following:

ppm install DBI.ppd

I still get the internet error above. I would like to know two things.
First, how do I get rid of the internet error so I don't have to download
stuff. Second, why is it trying to use the internet if I invoked PPM from
within the directory I unzipped the files. Thanks

I think you'll have to follow the detail of your proxy

server implementation to the letter, including the

provision of a userID and password, in order to get
the internet repositories to work. To get your own
files to work, you will need to add the directory
where they appear to your list of "active repositories".
Look at the "ppm repository add" command in perldoc ppm.
If you didn't get the proxy to work, you might need to
"ppm repository delete" the default internet repository.

 

[David McDivitt]

Thanks Bob and Dagmar.

From: Bob Walton <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 01:44:11 GMT
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[David McDivitt]

My problem was I did not place HTTP:// in front of the string assigned to
the HTTP_PROXY environment variable.