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• There have indeed been some CPAN problems (Score:2)

  by Alias (5735)

  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
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by mw487 (439)

    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.
    • Re: (Score:2)

      by bart (450)

      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\pe
      • Re:There have indeed been some CPAN problems (Score:2)

        by bart (450) <bart.lateur@pandora.be> on 2009.10.28 19:54 (#71009) Journal

        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...

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