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NAME

ppmprofile - A tool to save and restore PPM profiles

SYNOPSIS

ppmprofile [--verbose] (save|restore) [profile_file]

OPTIONS

-help

Print a brief help message and exits.

-man

A more detailled help message

-verbose

Print out more details at run-time

DESCRIPTION

This program can be used to export a list of all currently installed PPM packages. It can then be used to automatically install all these package in another installation of ActivePerl, possibly on a different machine.

  • save

    Save will export a snapshot of all installed modules in a profile file called profile.xml by default

  • restore

    Restore will import a snapshot from a profile file (called profile.xml by default) and use PPM to re-install these modules