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).

In reply to Re: Lastest version of perl for windows by wfsp
in thread Lastest version of perl for windows by Gorby

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