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in thread ActiveState Perl 10.x and Crypt::SSLeay not installed errors on Windows 2003

"There's still a couple of unresolved issues, however:"

and my 5.10 module install problem

ppm install failed: All available install areas are readonly.

Anyone had that error message before and what was the solution?

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Re^21: ActiveState Perl 10.x and Crypt::SSLeay not installed errors on Windows 2003
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Apr 01, 2008 at 18:13 UTC

    What do you get from the command: ppm area list?

    Using 5.8.6 I get

    Error: neither 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/ActiveState/PPM//InstallLo +cation' nor 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER/SOFTWARE/ActiveState/PPM//InstallLocation' found in registry at C:\Perl\bin\ppm line 16.

    Which is remarkable if only to note that an AS error message actually contained some useful information :)

    The other thing I noticed was the doubling of the path separators after PPM//?

    Using 5.10.0 I get:

    C:\Perl510\bin>ppm area list ┌───────┬─ +─────┬───&#9472 +;─────────&#947 +2;───────┐ │ name │ pkgs │ lib │ ├───────┼─ +─────┼───&#9472 +;─────────&#947 +2;───────┤ │ perl │ 37 │ C:/Perl510/lib │ │ site* │ 1 │ C:/Perl510/site/lib │ └───────┴─ +─────┴───&#9472 +;─────────&#947 +2;───────┘

    M'thinks AS are trying too hard to be too clever.


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      Below is the output from 5.10, on 5.8 I get an error message like you

      C:\Perl\ActivePerl-5.10.0.1002-MSWin32-x86-283697\perl\bin>ppm area li +st Syncing perl PPM database with .packlists...done ┌────────┬ +────┬────&#9472 +;─────────&#947 +2;─────────&#94 +72;─────────&#9 +472;─────────&# +9472;─────────& +#9472;────────┐ │name │pkgs│lib + │ ├────────┼ +────┼────&#9472 +;─────────&#947 +2;─────────&#94 +72;─────────&#9 +472;─────────&# +9472;─────────& +#9472;────────┤ │(pdk) │ n/a│C:/Perl/ActiveState Perl Dev Kit 6.0/ +lib/ │ │(user) │ n/a│C:/Perl/ActivePerl-5.10.0.1002-MSWin3 +2-x86-283697/perl/site/lib│ │(user_2)│ n/a│C:/Perl/ActivePerl-5.10.0.1002-MSWin3 +2-x86-283697/perl/lib │ │site* │ 1│C:/TEMP/perl------------------------- +----------------please-ruğ│ │perl │ 0│C:/TEMP/perl------------------------- +----------------please-ruğ│ └────────┴ +────┴────&#9472 +;─────────&#947 +2;─────────&#94 +72;─────────&#9 +472;─────────&# +9472;─────────& +#9472;────────┘