Perl 5.6 PPM is not working

[stilian82]

Hallo everybody!

Is there somebody who can help me with one advice. I would like to write DB script on perl which is using PostgreSQL database.
Which Perl version is the best for me?
I allready downloaded Perl 5.6 but because of something I cannot use PPM commnd from DOS what makes impossible to install DBD:g and DBI packages.
I gues that there is some problem with proxy or firewall but I couldnt sold it.

Tomov Stilian

 

[feherke]

Hi

Personally I used pg.pm for that. As far as I understand, now its name is pgperl.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[KevinADC]

Why did you install perl 5.6? You should install perl 5.8. Why can't you run PPM from DOS?

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- Kevin, perl coder unexceptional!

 

[travs69]

If you are in a corporate setting you need to create a enviroment variable on your pc called HTTP_proxy and give it your proxy server.

On xp
right click on my computer -> properties->Advanced->Enviroment Variables->New System variable->

If you don't do this before you install 5.8 (which you should be using!!) it will give you a few problems.

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