Re: (Fwd) Cannot install DBI package

[email protected] (John R Pierce)
Newsgroups perl.dbi.users
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Tim Bunce wrote:
>    I am Joe and manage a test team. We use PERL extensively for our test automation. Recently, there has
>    been a change in the way we access internet in our company. The new proxy server does not allow the ppm
>    package to access the necessary repo to download the missing packages. Therefore, I was forced to look
>    for .ppd files for the missing packages.
>    Currently, I am in dire need of the DBI package for Windows and all UNIX flavours. Could you please help
>    me get these ppd files so that I can install them via ppm on our test boxes? Your help in this regard is
>    much appreciated.
>   


the magic phrase to use on the firewall/proxy administrators is 
'business requirement'.

that said, you can always download the tarballs and build from them 
using Makefile.PL ...
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