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Thanks a lot !

dysmas — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:49:58 -0700

Hello,
Thanks a lot for your answer, it works perfectly !

Workaround

grahams — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:59:23 -0700

You can set the ACTIVEPERL_PPM_HOME environment variable to
point to a directory without extended Unicode characters in its name and PPM
will try to maintain its database in this directory instead.

Example:

set ACTIVEPERL_PPM_HOME=c:\perl\temp

I tried to install the same

dysmas — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:33:45 -0700

I tried to install the same install file on a computer running the same version of Windows 2000 Pro, but which does not have a "paramÃ¨tres locaux" directory in WINNT. There ppm works perfectly and the database was installed in "Documents and Settings/Administrateur/Local Settings/Application Data/Active State/Active Perl/1002".

I tried to copy this database in the 1002 directory of the first installation, but it did not work.

I am quite sure the question is about this accentuated character because PARAMâ•š~1 is incorrect, we should have paramÃ¨~1

ppm does not work after install

dysmas — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:24:57 -0700

I just installed ActiveState Perl 5.10.0.1002 Win 32 and tried to launch ppm.

Either with the gui command or with the command line (ppm install PAR) I get the same error message :

ppm install failed: DBI connect('dbname=c:\winnt\PARAMâ•š~1\APPLIC~1/ActiveState/ActivePerl/1002/ppm-MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5_10.db','',...) failed: unable to open database file(1)

I had exactly the same error with ActiveState Perl 5.8

The directory c:\winnt\... \1002 is correctly created, but nothing inside.
I wonder if this may have something to do with the fact that I have a French Windows, with an accentuated character in the above path which should be :

c:\winnt\PARAMÃ¨~1\APPLIC~1/ActiveState/ActivePerl/1002

Or a problem with slashs instead of anti-slashs ?

But I don't see what I can do to create manually the desired database.

Thanks if you have any idea