Questions tagged [activeperl]

ActivePerl is a distribution of Perl from ActiveState (formerly part of Sophos) for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX.

ActivePerl is an ActiveState's precompiled, supported and quality-assured Perl distribution, available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX.

A free edition with only community support is available, as well as a supported Business and a Enterprise edition.

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ppm gives "401 Authorization Required"

Running AS perl on Win7, on command line: I type: ppm install Math-Round I get: Downloading ActiveState Package Repository packlist...done Updating ActiveState Package Repository database...done Downloading Math-Round-0.06...redirect Downloading…
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Perl not recognised as a command

I have installed activePerl 5.20.2 build 2002. However, when I open a command prompt window and type the command perl -v, I obtain this message: 'perl' n'est pas n'est pas reconnu en tant que commande interne ou externe,...i.e 'perl' is not is not…
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Perl ServerCommon module is missing in perl windows

I'm using Active perl version 5.22 on windows , When I try to execute a program it says serverCommon.pm is missing , you need to install serverCommon module but I couldn't find a module with the same name from internet, I tried the same for…
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ActiPerl + Tcl.pm *** glibc detected *** munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x09b5e0d8

I installed ActivePerl 5.10.1.1007 on my Ubuntu 10.04 machine. I have a very simple Perl script with the following lines: use lib "/opt/ActivePerl-5.10/lib"; use Tcl; my $Interpreter = new Tcl; $Interpreter->Eval('puts "Hello…
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Perl module expect.pm is not available for windows 64 bit system

I am using Activeperl for my windows 64 bit machine, I want to use expect.pm module for windows 64 bit, but getting these errors: Can't locate Expect.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Expect module) (@INC contains:…
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Cannot run any Perl scripts on Windows 8.1

I installed Active Perl 5.20 and also Strawberry Perl 5.20 after uninstalling Active Perl. In both cases, when I open cmd and type 'perl' I get: Unknown Unicode option letter ':'. This error also prevents all scripts from running on my Windows 8.1…
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Using perl to learn HTML forms

I followed my book and I - 1 - Installed Abyss Web server, personal edition. 2 - Copied the book's echo.pl file to the htdocs folder of the webserver. Restarted the webserver. 3 - Installed Active Perl. (Actually, it was there already. I don't…
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Default parameter for reverse function in list context in Perl?

As below Perl script shows, it seems $_ is not passed as default parameter to reverse in list context. Why doesn't it just accept $_ as default parameter and do the scalar to list conversion? What's the rule for function's default parameters in both…
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Combine multiple statements into an expression in Perl?

Is it possible to combine multiple statements into a single expression? A block could do this but I am wondering whether they could also be packaged into a expression.
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Cannot include space in string in one line program mode for Perl on Windows?

The command perl -ne "print "" """ AnyTextFile.txt running on Windows with latest ActivePerl installed (5.020) complains Can't find string terminator '"' anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.. Other characters or variables work as expected, like perl…
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Error: failed dependencies /usr/bin/perl is needed

I am installing Mysql server on Fedora. When running this command: [sugumar@localhost softwares]$ rpm -i MySQL-server-5.6.21-1.el6.i686.rpm it shows the following error error: Failed dependencies: /usr/bin/perl is needed by…
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What does perl configure mean

Forgive me this newbie question. After installing ActivePerl for Windows. I try to understand the command perl configure .... with the command perldoc perl. But didn't found anything about configure option. I also try the command perldoc perl…
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What will happen if we install modules when we have both Active and strawberry Perl in system?

I need to know what will happen if we install Perl modules using CPAN when both Active & Strawberry Perl existing in same system. I have both of them installed in my windows server. As both of them will be installed in different paths, below are my…
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Serving Image with Perl prints wrong Content-Length (Gives net::ERR_CONTENT_LENGTH_MISMATCH in Chrome)

Activeperl 5.16 + Windows environment. Windows machine: Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 16 subversion 3) configuration: Linux machine: Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 14 subversion 2) configuration: Doesn't occur on Linux based at…
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Why ActivePerl does not show all modules available on CPAN in search results

Why there are some modules which can be only installed from command prompt, they are not listed in search list of modules in ActivePerl.
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