Installing activestate perl

Asked 11 years, 7 months ago. Active 4 years, 6 months ago. Viewed 50k times. The system cannot execute the specified program What do I need to do to solve these issues? Improve this question. Peter Mortensen Pavunkumar Pavunkumar 4, 13 13 gold badges 40 40 silver badges 67 67 bronze badges. Providing your operating system, whether it's 32 bit or 64, and exactly which package, zip, msi and platform would be useful. If you can't resolve the Active Perl problems, you might try Strawberry Perl.

Does it really says "prgoram"? Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Which must be executed how often? Nothing comes up when i do a search for perl.

What if my start menu doenst have "active state perl"? Tom - use Windows file search. IIRC, "F3" in main desktop? Joenade Joenade 61 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge. Thanks a lot. The examples and screenshots below refer to ActivePerl 5. As mentioned above, these steps will work for ActivePerl 5.

For example, to install the DBD-mysql database driver all you have to do is run the ppm install command:. Alternatively you can run ppm without any parameters to invoke the GUI, just search for DBD-mysql , select the DBD-mysql package, and perform the following installation:. ActiveState downloads all new packages from CPAN once a day and tries to build them for each supported platform. The generated binaries will be added to the PPM repositories if:.

For those using PPM with a proxy server you can follow these instructions. This information was true for the old PPM3 client and is no longer correct. For more information about firewalls and proxies, visit this FAQ. If a precompiled version of the module you are looking for does not exist in the PPM repository, you can attempt to compile it yourself. For most modules, this is a simple process, even on Windows. If there is zip or tar file inside , then unzip it. This needs to be maintained when placing the.

This file is a help file describing the functions available in corresponding. Please note that every package may not have autosplit. In other words , autosplit. If it is not available there , then there is no need to put it. For example , the entry will be like this in.

This is useful, especially when one is not able to install Perl module using PPM tool. Required Modules none specified. Accounts Create Account Free! Sign In.