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I have a similar problem. I

david_crampton — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:58:26 -0800

I have a similar problem. I have installed ActivePerl and see the following in my Start Button > Programs ActivePerl 5.10.0 Build 1004 >
Documentation
OLE-Browser
Perl Package Manager

I have only used Perl on Linux at work and want to be able to use it at home on my PC. Is there some package I am missing and need to be able to use write compile and use Perl at home on a Win2k PC?

Thanks,

Dave C

EDIT: I could not use the OLE browser until I figured it was launching Fairefox. I have now set HTML types to IE and enabled the AciveX stuff. Now its still only a browser and I don't know how to run .pl files. I have written a few in notpad but have to change them in file mangler. I may have to buy Text?

Any ideas about how to run Perl in Windows? perl -w example.pl does not work from the 'run' icon in the start menu.

lanch installation

webkamelo_yahoo — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:24:53 -0800

file installer do not lanching automaticly
msi do not start

I have the same problem.

andri85 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:17:11 -0700

I have the same problem. I've just installed ActivePerl but I can't find it anywhere. It should be a quite trivial task but I'm not competent at all with such stuff. Please answer if you have any idea. thanks

andri

What about mod_perl?

The ITsmith — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:05:20 -0700

How does one use Apache/mod_perl on Linux with ActiveState?

I use a number of applications, such as RT and Bricologe, that utilize mod_perl. Is there a way to configure Apache to utilize ActivePerl instead of the already installed Perl that comes with the distro?

cannot find activeperl

mat6564 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:47:20 -0700

I am also new to Macs and have installed Activeperl but cannot find it.The installation guide says that it will be put in Users/Local path but this directory does not appear to exist on my Mac (Os X10.5.2).Maybe this is why the installation fails.It would be good if somebody could answer, im sure it is a simple problem.

problems with mac OS X installation

ninthprince — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:01:53 -0700

Hi,

By way of full disclosure, I am new to using a mac -- longtime windows user. I am trying to download ActivePerl 5.10 for MAC OS X. Everything seems to go fine, but I can't find ActivePerl in my applications area. I'm not sure I understand the documentation, but there seems to be something which suggests that the program is not actually installed in applications area, but rather down some kind of user branch. When I use Finder I can see that branch and I can find some ActivePerl stuff, but there is nothing that looks like an actual program (just stuff like the image file, etc.)

I tried downloading and installing another program (JGRASP) and was successful in getting it installed into my applications area. So, I am able to have some success in downloading and installing.

What should I do? Thanks.

opening perl

dtownmiguel — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:23:34 -0700

I downloaded perl but i can not find it anywhere or open it...And when i try to run a script with the extension .pl nothing happens? Please help

ActivePerl-5.10.0.1003 install Mail-SPF failed

jtloud — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:08:44 -0700

Trying to install ActivePerl in order to use SpamAssassin on WinXp & get the following error trying to install Mail-SPF with ppm. I'm following the instructions on website
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/InstallingOnWindows
Any help is appreciated.

ppm> install Mail-SPF
ppm install failed: Can't find any package that provides Mail-SPF

Probably windows command

San — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:18:31 -0700

Probably windows command prompt don't like white space in file names unless you encase them in quotes, but talking to your database via command prompt is not very secure anyway. Can you not get the output from within your script using DBI?

I found that some of the

San — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:07:19 -0700

I found that some of the modules i wanted to use didn't work well in 64bit so even if you are using 64bit windows I would still recommend using Perl x86 (32bit) for maximum compatability.

Don't bother paying for IIS, Apache works very well and it's free ;)

"ActivePerl-5.10.0.1003-MSWin

San — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:02:13 -0700

"ActivePerl-5.10.0.1003-MSWin32-x64-285500.zip"
"not a valid win32 application"

are you trying to run 64bit perl on 32bit version of windows? You need x86 version.

not valid win 32 package application

asamaid1_yahoo — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:59:04 -0700

I have downloaded this file ActivePerl-5.10.0.1003-MSWin32-x64-285500.zip
but when i try to install it, a dialog box pops up and says that it is not a valid win32 application, and can not be installed, can anyone tell me whts wrong with it? plz. thanks.

compatibility problems

Nicholas Cruz — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:03:02 -0700

This was the best help with my problem with incompatible modules. Thank you for the information and the links.

Running ActivePerl on XP

dldavide — Tue, 27 May 2008 09:32:23 -0700

I've just installed ActivePerl on my computer (MS XP2002/SP2). I cannot run perl script (not even c:\Perl\eg\example.pl). The MS-DOS windows pops up and crashes down immediately.

Any suggestion is warmely welcome.

Thank you.
Davide

P.S.: Since im quite ignorant concerning computer stuff, plain language would be appreaciated :-)

Help

dadress — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:15:20 -0700

I am trying to install on windows 2003 server. Perl -v works from a dos prompt but none of the perl examples work in iis...The extensions are in and the directory has scripts and execuatable permissions