ActivePerl Setup

[Scott Nowell]

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> > Am I using the correct sequence / correct instructions?  I am using 
> > version 5.8.8.820 of ActivePerl which is loading version 
> 4.01 of PPM.
> >   
> 
> I've never seen such an error using PPM, but I've never used 
> a 4.x version. Maybe it has stronger default checking for 
> files overwriting each other... does "ppm help" list an 
> option for disabling that checking?
> 
> Otherwise, maybe you should try ActivePerl 5.8.6 or 5.8.7, 
> since those use PPM 3.
> 

Looks like I took an unexpected shortcut.  On this version there is no
ppm3.bat, but there is a ppm.bat and a ppm-shell.bat.  I picked the
ppm.bat which brings up a nice GUI.  After seeing your message it became
clear you were all talking about command line functions.  Ppm-shell.bat
brings up the "apparently" older command line version. Using that to do
the install of xml-sax-expat, it complained about reverting to an older
version of xml-sax and said to use --force to make it work anyway.  I
did, it did.  Thanks. Now back to the original test.

Scott