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Have a look at the installation guide before you upgrade.
  1. Use Window's Add/Remove Programs applet (accessible from the Control Panel) to uninstall ActivePerl.
  2. Manually delete all directories beneath the Perl installation directory (by default C:\Perl) except the site\lib directory.
  3. Install ActivePerl to the same directory (i.e., C:\Perl).
  4. Use the ppm upgrade command to check for module updates.
You could hit some snags if you don't (particlularly with ppm).
Also note that the html docs only work properly with IE (but they do look very nice).
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by Popcorn Dave (Abbot) on Aug 02, 2005 at 03:35 UTC
    Also note that the html docs only work properly with IE (but they do look very nice).

    I'm curious what browser you've had problems with reading the HTML Docs in. They work just fine for me in Firefox as well as IE.

    Useless trivia: In the 2004 Las Vegas phone book there are approximately 28 pages of ads for massage, but almost 200 for lawyers.
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      winxp home, perl 5.8.7 and Firefox 1.0.4

      I reinstalled perl again just to make sure.

      The links in the lefthand scrolling frame don't work and generate a javascript 'uncaught exception' error.

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        Strange indeed. I'm running Perl 5.8.6 ( ActiveState) with winXP home, and Firefix 1.0.6, but I've never had a problem with the ActiveState docs. Actually I've never had a problem with any version of Firefox. Maybe it's something you should bring up on the Firefox discussion board?

        Useless trivia: In the 2004 Las Vegas phone book there are approximately 28 pages of ads for massage, but almost 200 for lawyers.
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