Re: [Xsh-users] Installation Difficulty

[Petr P. <pa...@uf...>]

On Wednesday 08 August 2007, jpo...@da... wrote:
> Hello
>
> I used to use XSH on RH Linux and that worked fine for years.
>
> Now, I'm working in a Windows shop and I'm trying to install XSH2 v2.1.0
> on Vista. (Note: I have ActiveState perl build822).
>
> I've followed the installation instructions (both online and offline).
> When I enter
>
> ppm install XML-XSH2
>
> I get an error message saying:
>
> ppm install failed: 501 Protocol scheme 'c' is not supported
> Any Idea what this means?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe Polanik


For the off-line installation, I would say it means that ppm parses some path 
starting with c:\ as an URL, in which case, c: would be a protocol scheme. I 
don't have any windows around here so I can't say how to resolve it; it may 
be even a bug in ppm. 

I would suggest you first try install all dependencies of XSH2 using ppm (e.g.

ppm install Parse-RecDescent
ppm install Term-ReadLine-Perl
ppm install Text-Iconv
ppm install XML-SAX-Writer
ppm install XML-LibXML
ppm install XML-LibXSLT

and possibly other modules and then, if ppm install XML-XSH2 fails, try 
installing it from CPAN. For this, you will need the microsoft nmake.exe 
utility (free and easily found by google). Once installed, you can run

cpan

and from the cpan shell prompt

install XML::XSH2

-- Petr