Phoenix.pm: Installing Perl
Doug and Julie Miles
dmiles at primenet.com
Wed Oct 20 20:08:06 CDT 1999
At 05:58 PM 10/20/99 -0700, you wrote:
>At 08:04 PM 10/20/99 EDT, you wrote:
>>OK. Those of you who have met me in person can probably attest to me being
>>just plain dangerous when it comes to some things about computer literacy.
>>(Telnet being just one of them, with or without peanut brittle crunching
>>inside my head.)
>>
>>In attempting to load a module, I got a message saying that I needed Perl
>>5.004 for the latest DBI.pm version to work. OK, no problem, I say. I'll
>>just load up Perl 5.004 on my machine and we'll be on our way. Except
>that I
>>can't figure out for the life of me what I need to do. This is after
>>reading as many readme files as there are hairs on my ass... OK that's a
bad
>>analogy...
>
>You might be going about this the hard way. Just get the precompiled
>ActiveState version. This is what it has to say on the download page:
>
>The latest release of ActivePerl is 521. This build is based on Perl
>5.005_03.
>
>That should cover it. Then go back to installing DBI.
That's at www.activestate.com
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