Perl Package Manager (PPM) is a Perl 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 Microsoft Windows systems, which often lack the C and C++ compilers necessary to build some Perl modules. Popular ActiveState's ActivePerl distribution comes with PPM included, other distributions can use PPM after acquiring and building PPM module from CPAN.
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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Yevgeny Menaker; Michael Saltzman; Robert J. Oberg (2003). Programming Perl in the .NET Environment. Prentice Hall. pp. 155–156. ISBN 9780130652065. 9780130652065 ↩
Dave Roth (2002). Win32 Perl Programming: The Standard Extensions. New Riders Press. pp. 13–16. ISBN 9781578702169. 9781578702169 ↩
Paul Hoffman (2011). Perl For Dummies. Wiley. ISBN 9781118085189. 9781118085189 ↩
David N. Blank-Edelman (2000). Perl for System Administration. O'Reilly Media. p. 6. ISBN 9781565926097. 9781565926097 ↩
"Goodbye PPM, Hello State Tool". activestate.com. July 23, 2019. https://www.activestate.com/blog/goodbye-ppm-hello-state-tool/ ↩