Hi, Had Strawberry Perl and Gcc. Worked GREAT! Needed BASH shell to do ./configure. Installed cygwin. Nice to have Bash!

Now, I have NO CPAN: cpan install Image::ExifTool ... Checksum for \cygdrive\d\photog\home.bpb\.cpan\sources... Image-ExifTool-10.00.tar.gz ok ... The system cannot find the path specified. Couldn't untar Image-ExifTool-10.00.tar: c

Uninstalled cygwin from instructions on http://cygwin.wikia.com/wiki/Uninstalling_Cygwin. Destroyed myriad traces in windows 7 registry. Removed all cygwin dirs... Removed all cygwin environmental variables. No trace on system drive except for 1998, *.exe *nix tools and Git has a /cygwin dir. Removed all cygwin from startup programs.

Moved strawberry.perl dir. Reinstalled latest Strawberry Perl 5.22.01

cpan still re-creates '\cygdrive\d\photog\home.bpb\.cpan...' directory. Does not use new, empty E:\strawberry_perl\cpan\... directory. Using the new cpan.bat:

d:\pic>where cpan E:\strawberry_perl\perl\bin\cpan.bat

NOTE: Reinstalled ~20 harmless, classic 1998 vintage ls.exe, rm.exe, tar.exe, where.exe, cat.exe *nix tools.

Where is this cygwin infection coming from? How to exterminate it once and for all? Rebooted

Without CPAN, none of my scripts run. Ouch!

In reply to cygwin ATE CPAN!!! by BrianP

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