Perl Package Manager (''PPM'') is a

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utility intended to simplify the tasks of locating, installing, upgrading and removing software packages. It can determine if the most recent version of a software package is installed on a system, and can install or upgrade that package from a local or remote host. PPM is widespread on

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systems, which often lack the C and

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compilers necessary to build some Perl modules. Popular

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's ActivePerl distribution comes with PPM included, other distributions can use PPM after acquiring and building PPM module from

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. PPM uses so called “PPM Repositories”, collections of pre-compiled modules. These repositories contain a large variety of modules, published on CPAN. As of ActivePerl 5.28, PPM is no longer supported.

References

External links

PPM Distribution on CPAN

Perl Package Manager Index
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