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PPM is widespread on [[Microsoft Windows]] systems, which often lack the [[C (programming language)|C]] and [[C++]] compilers necessary to build some Perl modules.
Popular [[ActiveState]]'s ActivePerl distribution comes with included PPM included, other distributions can use PPM after acquiring and building PPM module from [[CPAN]].
 
PPM uses so called “PPM Repositories”, collections of pre-compiled modules. These repositories contain a large variety of modules, published on CPAN.