blackadder has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all, I am back,....how can I uninstall perl off my NT4 system. I used the zipped download instead of the MSI version to install it, and I don't have an entery for perl in the install/uninstall tab of add/remove programs in the control panel.
btw; sorry about my last posting and this one....I am a bit rusty. Many Thanks

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Re: Uninstalling Perl off WINNT (rmdir)
by tye (Sage) on Jun 17, 2003 at 15:32 UTC

    Not all that much to it: 

        > rmdir /s /q c:\perl
    > assoc .pl=

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    though you can delete a couple of more trees from the registry if you really want to. For more details, read the batch file that gets run in order to install that version of Perl. I'd go read it myself but ActiveState wants my e-mail address before they'll show it to me.

    Update: I saw the form and gave up. I didn't read any of the weasel words above the form. If I'd had stronger motivation to donwload ActivePerl, then I'd probably have bothered to read. But then, I'd probably have looked for an alternate distribution of Perl anyway.

                    - tye
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      Just for the record, ActiveState doesn't require an e-mail address, they just request it. The "next" link will take you to the download page even if the form is empty.

      Of course I'm assuming you are talking about the ActivePerl download page - and we all know what happens when we ass-u-me ;)

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Re: Uninstalling Perl off WINNT
by hangmanto (Monk) on Jun 17, 2003 at 15:58 UTC
    From the ActivePerl User Guide:
    "Uninstalling ActivePerl on Windows MSI Package

    If you installed ActivePerl using the MSI installer, uninstall using the Windows Add / Remove Programs applet.

    AS Package

    If you installed ActivePerl using the AS installer, uninstall by deleting the directory in which ActivePerl was installed."

    You may also want to remove the file association and registry settings as tye suggested.
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      Thanks to all ,... I was a little bit worried about the Winnt Registry implications.
      Thanks Tye, you are still as helpful as ever.

      Cheers
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