NET-SSH2 for perl 5.20.2 on windows 2008 r2

Question

I am trying to install NET-SSH2 for perl 5.20.2 on windows 2008r2 but no success.

C:\Perl>ppm install NET-SSH2 Downloading ActiveState Package Repository packlist...failed 500 Can't connect to ppm4.activestate.com:80 ppm install failed: Can't find any package that provides NET-SSH2

please help

Answer 1

ActiveState has not gotten that package to build for that version of Perl, it seems. The dependency on the libssh2 library is the problem. See the build log here:

ActiveState Perl 5.20 Net::SSH2 build log

I believe Strawberry Perl has libssh2 built in.

If you want to stick with ActiveState, and don't mind using a 3rd party repository of ppm packages, you can use this command to install a version of Net::SSH2 correctly compiled with libssh2:

ppm install http://www.sisyphusion.tk/ppm/Net-SSH2.ppd

See this link on PerlMonks for a good explanation of the issue:

Net-SSH2 on Windows with Perl 5.14

The OP in the above thread is using 5.14 but the sisyphusion ppd will detect your perl version and platform architecture.