Re^2: Activestate Perl module upgrade assistance

Thanks for the reply Martin,

Please forgive my ignorance in asking but the information is for installing a module; do you know if it will it cause issues if a previous version of a module is already present? Or is that all magically taken care of?

Cheers
MrL

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Re^3: Activestate Perl module upgrade assistance by marto (Cardinal) on Jun 09, 2009 at 10:57 UTC
mrlizard123, I'm pretty sure that install will simply install the new version of the module, replacing the existing (in this case older) version. If I am wrong I'll soon be corrected :) You could check the documentation for the version of PPM you are using. I've not used PPM for quite some time since I use Strawberry Perl when working on a Microsoft Windows platform, which has cpan in addition to ppm. Martin	[reply]
Re^4: Activestate Perl module upgrade assistance by mrlizard123 (Novice) on Jun 09, 2009 at 11:22 UTC
I use strawberry perl on my windows laptop, but unfortunately I don't have the luxury of dictating what is used on the server in question... ah well, we do what we must. Thanks again for your help, very much appreciated! :)	[reply]
Re^4: Activestate Perl module upgrade assistance by jand (Friar) on Jun 09, 2009 at 15:23 UTC
ActivePerl has included a preconfigured `cpan` shell for a couple of years too; you just need to install a C compiler in order to build modules containing XS. You can use PPM to install gcc from MinGW and dmake using: ppm install MinGW Also, Strawberry Perl comes with a PPM commandline client too.	[reply] [d/l]