every time i try to use the plugin manager's install link, i get this message:

"Unknown archive type at extlib/MT/Plugins/Manager.pm line 785"

does anyone know what this might be related to? thanks

Are you sure manager.pm was uploaded in ASCII mode? Just checking...

Donna

yup, uploaded in ascii mode. i've got all the required perl modules uploaded to the right locations too.

i'm also getting the error "MT::Plugins::Manager=HASH(0x80606dc) Can't locate auto/Compress/Zlib/autosplit.ix in @INC (@INC contains: ./extlib ./lib /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 .) at /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/AutoLoader.pm line 127.
at extlib/Compress/Zlib.pm line 16"

i changed the error message to echo $archive->{'format'}, and it returned "TGZ", so i've changed the if qualifier from "TAR.GZ" to "TGZ" for the moment. now, when i try to load the page, ie comes up with "The page cannot be displayed"

Those errors could indicate that your required modules aren't all really there. Its looking for the Compress::Zlib module to read the tar.gz files, and not finding it. If you installed that module yourself, you probably will need to get your host to do it on a root level.

Are you using the latest version of the plugin manager? It has some enhanced error reporting in it, although I don't know if it would still display that error either way.

Kristine

if i'm reading the error correctly, extlib/Compress/Zlib.pm is calling AutoLoader.pm (in the actual perl distro), but AutoLoader.pm is looking for autosplit.ix back in the Compress directory. should AutoLoader.pm not be accessing a local copy of autosplit.ix? i've googled (and searched cpan) for it, but it seems like it's only found within actual perl distros. is there a solution, other than me downloading a perl distro to get this file?

i downloaded PluginManager-0.1.8.zip. i changed the script to report what it was receiving.

According to the bug tracker for this error message, David says

So maybe check on that option.

Kristine

thanks, i'll give them a buzz