NAME

parinstallppd - Install PPD/PPM packages using PAR

SYNOPSIS

parinstallppd --help

parinstallppd [-v -o DIR ...] -u PPD-URI-OR-FILE

DESCRIPTION

This script converts packages for the Perl Package Manager which is specific to ActiveState's perl distributions to .par files and installs those using PAR::Dist.

It works much the same way as the ppd2par tool but with an additional installation step after the conversion.

Parameters

-u --uri
  Set the place to fetch the .ppd file from. Can be an URL
  (http://..., https://..., ftp://...) or a local file.
-v --verbose
  Sets the verbose mode.
--no-docs
  Strip all documentation (man pages, html documentation) from the
  resulting PAR distribution.
  (This step is carried out at the end. If something goes wrong,
   it will be skipped.)

You can also set various bits of meta data by hand:

-n --distname
  Distribution nompress::LZF 	Version 1.7.0.0 	Perl 5.6 Perl 5.8
Author: Marc Lehmann <schmorp (at) schmorp.de>
Abstract: extremely light-weight Lev-Zimpel-Free compression
For installation, cut and paste in a DOS console:
ppm install http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/Compress-LZF.ppdame
--dv --distversion
  Distribution version (Note: This is not -v!)
-p --perlversion
  Perl version (can be set to 'any_version')
-a --arch
  Architecture string (can be set to 'any_arch')
--sa --selectarch
  Regexp for selecting the implementation based on architecture
--sp --selectperl
  Regexp for selecting the implementation based on perl version

SEE ALSO

This tool is implemented using the PAR::Dist::InstallPPD module. Please refer to that module's documentation for details on how this all works.

PAR has a mailing list, <par@perl.org>, that you can write to; send an empty mail to <par-subscribe@perl.org> to join the list and participate in the discussion.

Please send bug reports to <bug-par-dist-fromcpan@rt.cpan.org>.

The official PAR website may be of help, too: http://par.perl.org

For details on the Perl Package Manager, please refer to ActiveState's website at http://activestate.com.

AUTHOR

Steffen Mueller, <smueller at cpan dot org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2006 by Steffen Mueller

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.6 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.