Perl Package Manager

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Perl Package Manager ( PPM ) is a Perl tool that can easily manage (delete, install, update) Perl modules . A command line program is included in a ppm system with which a package can be installed directly from the Internet or the local directory. In addition, there is usually a graphical interface for this, which shows a quick overview of all installed and all available packages (depending on the specified ppm archives, more or fewer packages can of course be available).

PPM is mainly found on Windows systems because there are by default no C and C ++ compilers, which are necessary to install modules for Perl via CPAN modules.

PPM archives, so-called "PPM repositories" are offered by several Perl distributions. A large number of CPAN modules are offered there already precompiled.

Only two files are required to install a ppm package, an XML file with a ppd extension and a tar.gz file, both of which are located in the same directory of a PPM archive.

Since PPM archives can be looked through with the browser and all the dependencies of a package are stored in the ppd file, which can also be viewed with a browser, a collection of packages can be created with the simplest of means in order to open a computer network without internet connection, e.g. a company network to bring a common software version.

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