On 25 Jun 2012, at 13:53, Dave Cross wrote: > > Is there an easy way to clone a Strawberry Perl installation (including any > installed CPAN modules) across multiple PCs? > > I'm going to run some training for a client next month and they are going to > supply nine or ten PCs for the students. The PCs are running Windows with > Strawberry Perl installed. > > I've sent them a list of the modules that will be required for the practical > exercises and they are planning to manually install a couple of dozen modules > on each of these PCs. Which seems like far too much work for me. > > I know next to nothing about Strawberry Perl. But there must be a way to take > an installation from one machine and copy it onto another. Even if it's a > low-tech as copying the CPAN library directory. > > Does anyone have any experience in this area? Any advice that I can pass on > to my client? > > Cheers, > > Dave... > > p.s. Yes, I should probably look at supplying VM images for this. That's an > idea for the future.
>From memory strawberry perl installs everything into C:\strawbery or similar - >I think you can just copy this between machines but I don't have multiple >windows machines to test this. You'd also need to setup short-cuts etc. -ash
