Perl package manager

Perl Package Manager (PPM) is a <a href="/facts/Perl/fx31kjlT">Perl</a> 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 <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Windows/bwhAhuSL">Microsoft Windows</a> systems, which often lack the <a href="/facts/C_(programming_language)/Ky2No763">C</a> and <a href="/facts/C%252B%252B/Et0F2qn9">C++</a> compilers necessary to build some Perl modules. 
Popular <a href="/facts/ActiveState/B4oK1d29">ActiveState</a>'s ActivePerl distribution comes with PPM included, other distributions can use PPM after acquiring and building PPM module from <a href="/facts/CPAN/MB7Iv662">CPAN</a>.
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.

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Perl package manager