Who told you to look at perl -V?

Mine gives This is perl, v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread.

ActiveState screwed the pooch with the v5.8.0 release in that PPM knew to look for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8 but perl -V did not reflect that.

But all that is not important. Whats important is that you read your error messages carefully.
Error installing package 'G:\PerlCode\AddedModules\Config-Ini\Config-Ini.ppd': R ead a PPD for 'G:\PerlCode\AddedModules\Config-Ini\Config-Ini.ppd', but it is not intended for this build of Perl (MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8) .

This (or ppm) is telling you that your version of perl is (or ppm considers it to be) MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8. Some might consider that the error message is English a problem. You should complain to ActiveState if you do :)

MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

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Re: Who told you to look at perl -V? by mikeatrcn (Acolyte) on May 19, 2004 at 12:58 UTC
Thanks for the clarification! I'd gotten the Perl -v from perldoc.com . . . faq and noticed that it gave the version. Now that I know what my version of perl really is, I'm off to find something compatible with it. I'm really appreciating people like you who get us newbies on the right track.	[reply]

MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.