Perl-installation broken???

Dexter has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi there!

I've got the following problem:

I'm using Windows 2000 Pro (German-Version) with installed Service Pack 1. My machine is an AMD Duron 750 MHz-CPU with 128 MB RAM and 30 GByte U-ATA/100 IBM DTLA 307030-HDD (destination-partition: ~ 10 GByte). The Perl-Version I'm trying to install is 5.6.0.616 Built: 07/14/2000.

After I have started the installation-program, accepted the license-terms, selected the files I want to install and choosen the destination-path, I'm activating all setup-options ('Add Perl to the PATH enviroment variable', 'Create Perl file extension association', 'Create IIS script mapping for Perl' and 'Create IIS script mapping for Perl ISAPI') and starting the installation-process by clickng on the 'Next'- and then on the 'Install'-Button.

The installation-program seems to work properly for a moment. 'Relocating Perl ...' is the last status-message which is shown. Now I can hear the HDD-activity but about 1 minute later there is no status-message shown and the HDD-activity stops. The status-bar shows, that the setup is not finished! First I thought, that the installation-program freezes but I can still click on the 'Cancel'-Button. BUT: Clicking on the 'Cancel'-Button shows a box which asks me, if I reall want to cancel the installation. Clicking on the 'Yes'-Button' does not show any activity! In the Start-menu I can see the program-group 'ActivePerl' in which 'Documentation' is shown. I tried to wait about 1 hour but there does not happen anything in this time! =(

Do somebody know, what's the problem and how to fix it? HEEEEEEEEEELP!

Edit: 2001-03-03 by neshura

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Re: Perl-installation broken??? by neophyte (Curate) on Jan 29, 2001 at 19:56 UTC
Up to now I haven't installed Perl on Win2000, but I have installed Perl (ActivePerl to be precise) on Win95, Win98, NT and WinME (all in German) successfully. I strongly doubt that it has anything to do with the language version. With ActivePerl I have experienced delays of up to 10 Minutes while the installation routine created the html documentation. It was on a very slow machine, so this shouldn't happen on your AMD. Still I can recommend built 5.6.0.623 or later. If you have troubles installing that, too, you should get in touch with ActiveStates support. neophyte Niederrhein.pm	[reply]
Re: Re: Perl-installation broken??? by phathead22 (Novice) on Jan 29, 2001 at 22:52 UTC
One issue with build 623 is no debugger. I have successfully borrowed it from a prior build, and it still works. Don't know what I'd do without it... PH	[reply]
We are not ActiveState by Fastolfe (Vicar) on Jan 29, 2001 at 21:47 UTC
Things like this might be better sent to ActiveState's technical support department. If you've bought the product, you're entitled to a certain degree of support in getting it installed and working. If you're just playing with a freely available version, I'd still consult the support section of their web site. While all of us have a certain degree of skill with the Perl language itself, you'll find that a much smaller percentage of us delve into support issues in actually installing a distribution like ActiveState. I don't mean to push you away, but this isn't really something you are likely to get resolved via this web site.	[reply]
(tye)Re: Perl-installation broken??? by tye (Sage) on Jan 29, 2001 at 22:05 UTC
Go grab IndigoPerl, the installation process is so simple (unlike ActivePerl's installation these days) that I don't see how it could go wrong: http://www.indigostar.com/. - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")	[reply]
(jptxs)Re: Perl-installation broken??? by jptxs (Curate) on Jan 29, 2001 at 18:29 UTC
I don't know if this is it, but I had a friend have something similar happen with another program because the installer couldn't handle being on the Spanish version of windows. I looked at Activestate's website (if you're not using Activestate's perl, you might want to try it), but they say nothing regarding language version. He later worked out that the program he was installing was fine with the non-english windows, but the installer was not. I hope it's as simple as that. Sorry not to be more informative, but I don't have a box to try it out with =) Viel Gluck. `"A man's maturity -- consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play." --Nietzsche` [download]	[reply] [d/l]