[wxperl-users] installing in Windows 98

[Melora A. <mel...@ev...>]

Hello,

<OPTIONAL BACKGROUND>Yesterday I was reading about wxperl and it sounded
interesting.  That's where my journey led here.  I found something to
download, but I'm still not sure whether I got the right thing (Maybe a
new version of Perl? I'm running 5.6, but this page talked about 6xx and
8xx.. but maybe it meant the version of wxPerl?  Or is there a version 6
of Perl that I need?  But no, the thing I downloaded said 0.17.)  So
anyway, disregarding this confusion I pressed forward.</OPTIONAL BACKGROUND>

<OPTIONAL DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM>
I downloaded

Wx-0.17-wxmsw2.4.2-win32-5.8.0.zip

and used winzip to extract the three files (one is a .tar.gz; it made me
wonder whether this file is for Windows or whether it's intended for a
Linux box.).  Then I read the README.TXT, which said (among other things):
   # for Perl 5.6.x
   ppm install --location=. Wx[-dev]-0.17

Oh, okay, my 5.6 Perl is all right after all.  But when I typed that
last line, I got:

Error installing package 'Wx[-dev]-0.17': Could not locate a PPD file
for package Wx[-dev]-0.17

Any ideas what the trouble is?  Am I supposed to get something out of
the .tar.gz file?   Was I supposed to substitute something for [-dev]
that I was too dumb to know (it's okay, I know that I'm ignorant)?

Any help at all would be much appreciated.
</OPTIONAL DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM>

Never mind.  I figured out the problem.  Apparently my version of ppm is 
2.1.2, too old to do any of the above.  And the only way to get a more 
recent version is to get a new ActivePerl.  Heck with it, I'll just go 
on using it in text-only mode.  It's not worth replacing the house's 
foundation just to change a window.  But I must say that the

# for Perl 5.6.x

still puzzles me.

Sincerely,

Melora Adams