Perl Package Manager

Perl Package Manager (PPM ) is a perl tool that comfortably manage Perl modules (delete, install, upgrade ) can. Contained in a ppm system is a command line program, with which you can install directly from the internet or the local directory a package. In addition, most is still a graphical interface for this present, indicating a quick overview of all installed and all available packages ( depending on the specified ppm archives can of course be more or less packages available).

PPM is mostly to be found on Microsoft Windows systems, because there is no C and C compilers are there by default, which is needed to retrospectively install CPAN modules for Perl.

PPM archives, so-called " PPM repositories " are offered by several Perl distributions. Very many CPAN modules are already available there vorkompilert.

To install a ppm package only two files are needed, an XML file with ppd extension and a tar.gz file, both of which are in the same directory of a PPM archive.

Since PPM archives can be viewed with the browser and all the dependencies of a package are stored in the also viewable via a browser ppd file, you can with the simplest means to create a collection of packets to a computer network without an Internet connection, such as a corporate network, on to bring a common software version.