First thing is first, if you got both ppm and ppm3, don't mix them, it'll make a mess of things (stick to one, and always use that one).

Also, I would like to note that ActivePerl runs on BSD and other unices, and it is not Win32 specific, and nor are its PPM repositories, but you knew that ;)

PPM Package Status - now this page here has an interesting chart, and lots of interesting links for PPM users.

Now, everytime I try to install IPC-ShareLite using PPM3 on my Win2K machine, I get the same error. Here is the PPD for IPC-ShareLite

<SOFTPKG NAME="IPC-ShareLite" VERSION="0,08,0,0">
  <IMPLEMENTATION>
    <CODEBASE HREF="http://ppm.ActiveState.com/PPMPackages/5.6plus/sun
+4-solaris-thread-multi/IPC-ShareLite.tar.gz" />
    <ARCHITECTURE NAME="sun4-solaris-thread-multi" />
    <OS NAME="solaris" />
  </IMPLEMENTATION>
  <IMPLEMENTATION>
    <CODEBASE HREF="http://ppm.ActiveState.com/PPMPackages/5.6plus/i68
+6-linux-thread-multi/IPC-ShareLite.tar.gz" />
    <ARCHITECTURE NAME="i686-linux-thread-multi" />
    <OS NAME="linux" />
  </IMPLEMENTATION>
  <ABSTRACT>Light-weight interface to shared memory</ABSTRACT>
  <TITLE>IPC-ShareLite</TITLE>
  <AUTHOR>Maurice Aubrey (maurice@hevanet.com)</AUTHOR>
</SOFTPKG>
[download]

Now I used to scratch my head at this oddity, but apparently, IPC::ShareLite doesn't run on windows, and the PPM repository does not have a Win32 binary for it. You're probably experiencing the same issue (after that, I stopped trying to run Win32::Process on RedHat Linux).

 

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