This is version 2.1.5 of the Perl Package Manager, PPM.

See the POD contained in bin/ppm.pl for information on how to use the
PPM client.

See the POD contained in lib/PPM.pm for information on how to use the
PPM library to write an alternative client.

Warning: This version of PPM may not be *entirely* usable, in its current
form, outside of ActiveState's ActivePerl distributions (i.e., the only
distributions I use PPM on).  Any patches (particularly documentation 
and setup) that make it a more generally useful tool will be gratefully 
accepted.

Quick Start:

    o run 'perl Makefile.PL'
    o run 'make install'
    o Edit ppm.xml, changing 
        %OSNAME% => set to the output of 'perl -V:osname'
        %OSVERSION% => 'x,x,x,x' (e.g. '2,7,0,0' for Solaris 2.7)
        %TEMP% => set to your TEMP environment variable
        %SITELIB% => set to the output of 'perl -V:sitelib'
        %PERLDIR%  => set to the output of 'perl -V:prefix'
    o Copy ppm.xml to your Perl sitelib directory.

Needless to say, this could all be fairly easily added to
Makefile.PL--again, patches are welcome!

Murray Nesbitt <murray@cpan.org>