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Hello all, I've downloaded Perl 5.6.1 on www.perl.com
and am currently fiddling my thumbs together,
feeling rather quite stupid. lol

I have windows 98, PIII, 128 ram.
I need someone to tell me exactly how
this jungle of files I have downloaded
are to fit in this language called Perl.

I have tried for 3.5 hours, now, really,
and am at my wits end.
God, how I need a beer. ;)

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Antoine

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Re: Installing Perl 5.6.1 on WinDoze 98
by trantor (Chaplain) on Sep 01, 2001 at 01:09 UTC

    Perhaps you'd better download a more Windows friendly distribution, like ActivePerl...

    For a bunch of extremely useful UNIXish tools (including another distribution of Perl itself), try Cygwin.

    -- TMTOWTDI

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Re: Installing Perl 5.6.1 on WinDoze 98
by tachyon (Chancellor) on Sep 01, 2001 at 01:12 UTC

    Get a pre-comiled binary with an installer. I suggest you get ActivePerl from Active state here http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActivePerl/. You will want the MSI so just click on that. You will also need the Windows MSI Installer that Microsoft did not ship with Win98. You can get this from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=17343

    Install the Microsoft Installer by double clicking on it. Install ActivePerl by double clicking on the package. Follow prompts like any other Windows install. Welcome to Perl!

    Cheers

    tachyon

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      Well,

      Your advice and the cold beer have cleared my mind...
      So now I'll learn Perl n be a bttr prson... loll
      A damn good programmer, if the gods favor me. ;)
      Thanks a lot for the links! They helped.

      Here'S a funny one for you: <a HREF="www.thinkgeek.com">ThinkGeek.com</a>
      See you around,

      Antoine
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        No worries. Have a look a New Monks which is a node I wrote with heaps of useful stuff on it for those new to Perl and the Monastery.

        cheers

        tachyon

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