Phoenix.pm: Installing Perl

[Doug and Julie Miles]

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