[thelist] Installing ActivePerl

[Rob Oviatt]

Thanks everything went surprisingly smoothly on the install.

Rob

At 11:53 AM 7/9/01 -0700, you wrote:
> > Is the installation of ActivePerl fairly straight
>forward?  Any common
> > pitfalls I should look out for?
>
>I'm pretty green myself, but i just installed it on
>friday, and it was a piece of cake.
>
>1) download the "MSI" from
>http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActivePerl/
>
>2) Run the installer.
>
>3) create a perl file (plain text, with a .pl
>extension):
><file contents>
># Perl 101
>print ("Groovy, baby!\n");
></file contents>
>
>4) go to the command line, and open the file
>run > cmd
>E:\whatever_filepath>groovy.pl
>
>4-B) screen should show "Groovy, baby!".
>
>If you see that, you've successfully installed perl.
>
>g'luck. have no fear.
>n.
>
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