I'm trying to install PDL on Strawberry perl 5.28.0 on windows 7.

I tried cpan. It ran for about 10 minutes, scrolling the window with inscrutable messages, did not end with an error message or warning, and when it was done, there was no PDL to be found.

I tried the "easy" method from the PDL.perl.org page, but my system didn't recognize any of the commands it said to type.

I see that Strawberry has a PDL version of perl.
If I replace my current version with that, how will it clobber my hundreds of existing perl programs?

Or is there a REALLY easy way to install it?

In reply to How can I install PDL? by hsfrey

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