PPM Repositories

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A list of Windows PPM Repositories

Contents 1 Perl 5.10 2 Perl 5.8 3 Perl 5.6 4 Other 5 PPM and non-AS Perl

[edit] Perl 5.10

• http://ppm4.activestate.com/MSWin32-x86/5.10/1006/ (x86)
• http://ppm4.activestate.com/MSWin32-x64/5.10/1006/ (x64)
• http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/PPMPackages/10xx/
• http://trouchelle.com/ppm10/
• http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/
• http://www.wxperl.co.uk/repository/ (WxPerl modules)

[edit] Perl 5.8

• http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActivePerl/PPM/ (build status)
• http://ppm.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/

My PPM has AS Servers:

• http://ppm.ActiveState.com/cgibin/PPM/ppmserver-5.8-windows.pl?urn:/PPMServer (PPMServer 2.0)
• http://ppm.ActiveState.com/PPM/ppmserver-5.8-windows.plex?urn:/PPM/Server/SQL (PPMServer 3.0)

Other 5.8 only:

• http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/ (use this for ActivePerl builds 8xx)
• http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/
• http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/cgi-bin/ppmserver?urn:/PPMServer58 (PPMServer 2.0)
• http://chorny.net/perlmod/ (.zip only for now) - includes patched modules, but no longer updated
• http://chorny.net/ppm4/ (ppm4 only, from build 820) - includes patched modules
• http://trouchelle.com/ppm/
• http://ppm.tcool.org/archives/ (for AP build 818 and above)
• http://ppm.tcool.org/server/ppmserver.cgi?urn:PPMServer (PPMServer 2.0)
• Latest OpenGL 5.8 PPMs
• http://savage.net.au/Perl-modules.html
• http://ppm.pagefile.de/
• http://voltar.org/active/5.8/ (up-to-date Gtk2-perl, et al)
• http://www.wxperl.co.uk/repository/ (WxPerl modules)

May also work for 5.6:

• http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz/perl/
• http://www.Bribes.org/perl/ppm/
• http://www.Roth.net/perl/packages
• Latest OpenGL 5.6 PPMs

[edit] Perl 5.6

• http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActivePerl/PPM/ (build status)
• http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppmpackages/ (use this for ActivePerl builds 6xx)
• http://www.soulcage.net/ppds/ppds/
• http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/
• http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/cgi-bin/ppmserver?urn:/PPMServer (PPMServer 2.0)
• Latest OpenGL 5.6 PPMs

http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/htdocs/faqs/cpan-search.html is a CPAN mirror that shows available ppm packages (from several repositories) in search results.

[edit] Other

• http://bioperl.org/DIST A repository of "Bioperl"<http://www.bioperl.org/> packages
• http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/win32/ppm/ used to hold the Gtk2 related packages but it is gone now )

[edit] PPM and non-AS Perl

If you are using a multithreaded Perl distribution that doesn't have the PPM utility, you can try to use the PAR::Dist::FromPPD module to convert the PPD/PPM package to .par packages which can be installed using the free and pure-perl PAR::Dist module.

-- Tsee

Alternatively, you can install the PPM utility. Just install PPM-2.1.8 from CPAN. This is an older version of PPM (no GUI), but a very good and simple one. After installing see 'ppm help' and 'perldoc ppm'. This version of PPM (and any of the PPM packages from the repositories mentioned above) will work fine with any multithreaded Win32 Perl that was built using either the VC 6.0 compiler (eg ActiveState perl) or the MinGW compiler (eg Vanilla/Strawberry perl).

-- sisyphus