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=item B<ppm repo search> ...
Alias for B<ppm search>.
=item B<ppm repo suggest>
List some known repositories that can be added with B<ppm add>. The
list only include repositories that are usable by this perl installation.
=item B<ppm repo sync> [ B<--force> ] [ B<--max-ppd> I<max> ] [ I<num> ]
Synchronize local cache of packages found in the enabled repositories.
With the B<--force> option, download state from remote repositories even
if the local state has not expired yet. If I<num> is provided, only sync
the given repository.
PPM will need to download every PPD file for repositories that don't
provide a summary file (F<package.xml>). This can be very slow for
large repositories. Thus PPM refuses to start the downloads with
repositores linking to more that 100 PPD files unless the B<--max-ppd>
option provides a higher limit.
=item B<ppm search> I<pattern>
Search for packages matching I<pattern> in all enabled repositories.
For I<pattern>, use the wildcard C<*> to match any number of characters
and the wildcard C<?> to match a single character. For example, to find
packages starting with the string ""List"" search for C<list*>. Searches
are case insensitive.
If I<pattern> contains C<::>, PPM will search for packages that provide
modules matching the pattern.
If I<pattern> matches the name of a package exactly (case-sensitively),
only that package is shown. A I<pattern> without wildcards that does
not match any package names exactly is used for a substring search
against available package names (i.e. treated the same as
""B<*>I<pattern>B<*>"").
The output format depends on how many packages match. If there is only
one match, the B<ppm describe> format is used. If only a few packages
match, limited information is displayed. If many packages match, only
the package names and version numbers are displayed, one per line.
The number prefixing each entry in search output can be used to look
up full information with B<ppm describe> I<num>, dependencies with
B<ppm tree> I<num> or to install the package with B<ppm install>
I<num>.
=item B<ppm tree> I<package>
=item B<ppm tree> I<num>
Shows all the dependencies (recusively) for a particular package. The
package can be identified by a package name or the associated number
for the package returned by the last C<ppm search> command.
=item B<ppm uninstall> ...
Alias for B<ppm remove>.
=item B<ppm update> ...
Alias for B<ppm upgrade>.
=item B<ppm upgrade> [ B<--install> ]
List packages that there are upgrades available for. With
B<--install> option install the upgrades as well.
=item B<ppm upgrade> I<pkg>
=item B<ppm upgrade> I<module>
Upgrades the specified package or module if an upgrade is available in
one of the currently enabled repositories.
=item B<ppm verify> [ I<pkg> ]
Checks that the installed files are still present and unmodified. If
the package name is given, only that packages is verified.
=item B<ppm version>
Will print the version of PPM and a copyright notice.
=back
=head1 FILES
The following lists files and directories that PPM uses and creates:
=over
=item F<$HOME/.ActivePerl/$VERSION/>
Directory where PPM keeps its state. On Windows this directory is
F<$LOCAL_APPDATA/ActiveState/ActivePerl/$VERSION>. The $VERSION is a string