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Hello -

I'm trying to install ActivePerl 5.8 (Win32), but the .msi is not recognized and get this error message. The error message I get is –

"This installation package could not be opened. Contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer package."

I'm installing it as admin., from the console off of the harddrive (not over a network).
Any work around?

Thanks, Ray

I'm trying to compile some perl pgms on my windows2k SP3 so I installed the following in order to do it:

ActivePerl 5.8.8.819
Cygwin 2.510.2.2
Parse::Binary module 0.10
nmake 15

When I run:

perl Makefile.pl, all is OK

when I run:

nmake, I got the error described previously (U1073).

If I edit the Makefile, I found the following variables:

LDDLFLAGS = -s -L/usr/local/lib
LDFLAGS = -s -L/usr/local/lib
LIBC = /usr/lib/libc.a
LIB_EXT = .a
OBJ_EXT = .o
OSNAME = cygwin
OSVERS = 1.5.18\(0.13242\)
RANLIB = :
SITELIBEXP = /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8

While trying to install Archive-Zip.ppd, I received the following error:
ppm install failed: Installing Test-Simple-0.47 sould downgrade Test::Builder form version 0.32 to 0.17 and Test::More from version 0.62 to 0.74 and Test::Simple from version 0.62 to 0.47; use --force to install regardless

Q1: Do I care about this error? an why?
Q2: If I care where do I get a a version to Archive-Zip that will not produce this error?

rec

Hello Folks,

I'm new to perl and I try to use the Imager-Modul for a simple task. Create an image and save it to a jp(e)g file. My code (taken from the Imager examples, simply modified) looks like this:

#C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -w 
use strict; 
use Imager; my $image = Imager->new(xsize => 100, ysize => 100); $image->write(file=>'foo.jpg', jpegquality=>90) or die $image->errstr;

I get only the message "format not supported". As I ran the script

print join " ", keys %Imager::formats;

i got many formats, but not jpg/jpeg. So my question is how can I add the ability to work proper with jpg files? Which library is missing? My perl version is "v5.8.8 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread" from ActiveState. If you need other additional informations, please ask, I will give you an response immediately.

Hi!

I want to debug a Perl script that contains a "while(<>)" loop, i.e. one that expects data input from standard input. I want to take the input from a text file, and not type it in manually line by line. Therefore, I was wondering how can I implement an I/O redirect (i.e. "script_being_debugged < filename") or a pipe (i.e. "type filename | script_being_debugged") using the Komodo debugger?

Couldn't find any info in the help files or user forums.

Thanks in advance.

I had downloaded and signed for the personal license for Komodo a few months ago to learn Python and ended up sidetracked and never touching it, after running installation and a couple of tutorials.
Last night, to tell my brother the kinds of editors I had seen, I clicked on and opened Komodo. Since then I cannot reach amazon.com. Firefox keeps telling me address resolution is going in a loop. After fully virus scanning the machine, and verifying other machines on the home net still reach amazon, I scanned the registry and found a filepath with both 'activestate' in it and 'amazondotcom' so I figured there must be some kind of use of amazon.com in an example.

Hi all,

I am using the following code to connect to the oracle database and select/fetch a data.

The problem is the the below code works fine in Command Prompt.
But when the same code is run in the HTML Browser the statement seems to halt before the prepare statement.

Client Machine:
Windows 2000 with IIS + Active Perl (latest version)
Using DBI:Oracle
Using Oracle Instant Client for 10g 10.2
Using ODBC OracleClientInstant

Server Machine:
Windows 2003 Server
Oracle 10g 10.2 Standard which is reachable using the ODBC Administrator

I tried both the direct host connection as well as ODBC System DSN. In both only the command prompt mode works but not the HTML.

I have installed and used the Komodo (3.1)Debug module all afternoon, with great success, I might add. I had to stop working, I shut down Komodo and then cam back later.

I started up Komodo and made sure the listener was on, I pulled up Firefox and selected the URL line (with the ?XDEBUG_SESSION_START= GET argument) out of the URL drop down. The page did not display (as usual) but back in Komodo, instead of having a second program tab displayed (with the little lock beside the file name), there was a message saying "The file dbgp:///file///var/www/cgi-bin/photoutil/php-photo-stamper.php does not exist. Do you want to create it?

running the PDK tools (i.e perlapp.exe) I get the the error
message "No perl found at D:\perl\bin\perl.exe" today.

View the message of
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/pdk/3074310
and testing the procedure.

C:\>D:\perl\bin\perl.exe -le "print 'yup' if -x 'D:\perl\bin\perl.exe'"
yup

C:\>D:\perl\bin\perl.exe -v

This is perl, v5.8.8 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 33 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2006, Larry Wall........
===============================================================
Version Info:
Windows 2000 server

While trying to install the MSI version I get the following error message:

Product: ActivePerl 5.8.8 Build 819 -- Internal Error 2755. 3, I:\Windows\ActivePerl-5.8.8.819-MSWin32-x86-267479.msi
Data:
0000: 7b 38 43 38 43 32 35 30 {8C8C250
0008: 30 2d 33 37 35 36 2d 34 0-3756-4
0010: 43 46 46 2d 38 43 41 44 CFF-8CAD
0018: 2d 45 38 34 30 41 33 36 -E840A36
0020: 41 41 42 38 34 7d AAB84}

and the installer stops. As I was installing through a remote connection to the server, I tried to install it through Add/Remove Software, but that didn't work out either.

The recommended upgrade of the Windows installer for Windows 2000 Server, as indicated on the Activestate site, doesn't make any sense as the version of MSI installed (3.1) is newer then the one provided (2.0).