Why ppm: command not found?

Question

I am trying to run some ppm commands, but I'm not very far. I am running Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS on azure VM.

 > $ sudo apt-get install ppm Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done ppm is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded. 

 > $ ppm repo add ASSP2 "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/assp/ASSP V2 multithreading/packages/" No command 'ppm' found, but there are 16 similar ones ppm: command not found 

 > $ perl -v This is perl 5, version 14, subversion 2 (v5.14.2) built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi (with 55 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail) 

Any direction will be very useful.

FYI: I decided to work with cpan, but I would prefer to use ppm

Work around is easy

 $ sudo cpan cpan[#]> install some::package 

Answer 1

" ppm " is the name of the package manager used by ActiveState ActivePerl .

The Ubuntu ppm package is a “Power Policy Manager,” completely unrelated to it.

If you are not using ActivePerl to install Ubuntu, you do not want to use your PPM utility. If the package you are trying to install is not available in the Ubuntu repositories, or you do not want to use it, if it is available, then using CPAN is actually your best bet.