On Jan 8, 2009, at 9:58 , Zarabozo, Francisco (GE, Corporate) wrote:
> I'm having a problem with PPM in Active Perl 5.010 build 1004.
>
> I had my Perl installation in a non standard folder for Win32 (d:
> \usr).
> Today, I wanted to make a certain test with a new fresh installation
> of
> Perl, so I downloaded the installer and installed it in the default
> installation folder (C:\Perl), being careful about NOT selecting the
> options
> "Add Perl to Path" and "Associate pl files with Perl", since I
> already had
> set those settings in my system manually and according to my own
> needs with
> my previous still existent Perl installation.
I tried to recreate this, but that did not work out since when I
invoked the MSI to install the second "ActivePerl" on the system it
just gives me a menu that says:
* Modify
* Rapair
* Remove
which apparently would just do stuff with the installation I already
have. Did you use the MSI installer for the first perl as well?
--Gisle
>
>
> So, I saw what I wanted to see in the new fresh installation and
> then I
> uninstalled it from Control Panel / Add & Remove Programs. After
> uninstalling it, the folder C:\Perl was still in the hard drive with a
> couple of folders, so I deleted it.
>
> After all that, I discovered that my custom .pl association in the
> system
> was removed. Isn't that just wrong? I mean, I didn't let the
> installer make
> any changes to the pl extension or Perl path, so, why it decides to
> remove
> what it wasn't made by itself??
>
> However, even though I think that's a horrible installer bug, that was
> "easy" to solve. The main problem I'm having now is that my original
> PPM
> (which by the way, is the same version of Perl) is installing new perl
> modules on the path "C:\Perl\site\lib", which is absolutely wrong.
> If I
> remove that folder, ppm will create it again when installing any new
> module.
> If I look at the preferences in the gui-ppm it shows 4 areas: D:\usr
> \lib,
> D:\usr\site\lib, C:\Perl\lib and C:\Perl\site\lib.
>
> I've been trying to find files or settings related to PPM in Windows
> registry, the Documents and Settings folder, the Windows and System32
> folders and the Config.pm files in my perl installation, but I just
> cannot
> find how to make PPM forget about "C:\Perl".
>
> Anyway, I don't think those settings are inside the Perl
> installation folder
> (which it really should!) because I even reverted my Perl folder to
> its
> original state from my SVN repository, and the problem is still there.
>
> Can anybody please help me with this? Does anyone know where is PPM
> getting
> these settings from?
>
> Any help will be highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Paco Zarabozo A.
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