Most likely, CPANPLUS stores user configuration data where all programs store user configuration data. In a directory below $ENV{USERPROFILE}. In your case, I would look at files below C:\Documents and Settings\Helen\.cpanplus.

Most likely, the config files there reference the "other" directories. But then, I already recommended using a "search in files" facility in my previous post. My guess is that there are configuration settings in one file there that still have the values for the "other" Perl.

My issue is not with how you installed your second Perl instance, but with your steps to diagnose the issue. The answers to your key questions are likely answered by reading the documentation of CPANPLUS. It's good that you repeat these questions here, but I think you could also find the answers. You may consider it a bug that CPANPLUS maybe follows whatever is specified in its configuration files, or that CPANPLUS only keeps one configuration file per user instead of keeping one per user-per Perl version. But you've already been told what facility of your operating system could help you find out more about where such configuration could be found, or if the "search-in-files" functionality does not work, what other approaches there are.

You could also review the output of the installation process and check what directories are named there. This could have led you to a diagnosis at least one round of trying to install modules earlier.

Note that by installing modules with a newer Perl version into the "other" directories, you most likely now have broken the "older" Perl installation, at least if you used the newer Perl to install modules which require a C compiler, like Wx. I recommend looking for a backup of that "other" directory.

In reply to Re^5: cpanplus not functioning right in a multiple-Perl installation setup? by Corion
in thread cpanplus not functioning right in a multiple-Perl installation setup? by HelenCr

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