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  • So firstly, no guarentees if you have more than one Perl installed... no Perls really live together well.

    Secondly, there's known issues in CPAN.pm.

    I recommend uninstalling the July strawberry and trying again with the new October release.

    http://strawberry-perl.googlecode.com/files/strawberry-perl-5.10.1.0.msi [googlecode.com]

    This has a new (dev) CPAN release that might fix your problem, and some updated Perl modules and C libraries that should (hopefully) make the installation much easier.

    Finally, yes, newbies are not REALL

    • I submit that almost anyone installing strawberry already has a perl, and likely more than 1.

      When I install strawberry, I have activestate, cygwin, and I tried building my own. And after that, I have an old strawberry in front of the new strawberry.

      A prominent set of warnings seems appropriate.

      • The way I solved that is as follows:

        I removed the Strawberry specific paths from the PATH environment variable. I then added an icon in the start menu to launch a console shell (cmd.exe), after prepending these paths to PATH first.

        One easy way to do that, is by making a BAT file with the following contents:

        @echo off
        path C:\strawberry\c\bin;C:\strawberry\perl\bin;%path%
        cmd

        But an IMHO nicer alternative is to just create a shortcut with this as the target:

        cmd.exe /k PATH=C:\strawberry\c\bin;C:\strawberry\perl\bin;%PATH%

        Windows will instantly replace "cmd.exe" with its absolute path.

        At least for me, in Windows XP, the name of this shortcut appears and stays in the title bar of the console window, so it's best to give it a meaningful name, like "Strawberry shell".

        In the same way, you can provide a shortcut for Padre:

        cmd.exe /c PATH=C:\strawberry\c\bin;C:\strawberry\perl\bin;%PATH% && padre

        As Padre immediately comes back to the console window after launching, it apparently doesn't even require the console window to remain open, so you can replace "/k" with "/c", so the console window will just pop up and disappear again; and with that shortcut set to run as "Minimized", you won't even see that.

        It speaks for itself I've had to edit the shortcut to the CPAN client in a similar way, or it wouldn't be using the right perl.

        • I just found there's a padre.exe file in the perl\bin directory, with the same modification time as padre.bat. Apparently they were built together. So that's why it doesn't need a console window...

        • Thanks much! I think I understand, and I will try that.

          In a previous version of strawberry (last one?), when padre tried to update, for me things choked due to failures in the toolchain of padre. Does this likely have to do with the path during the update of padre? (I think that happened before I have the opportunity to intervene...)

          It would be lovely for such advice as yours to be obvious to strawberry perl installers who encounter such problems.

          Thanks again! I love perl, though it can be trying at time

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