Probably some of the installed applications re-assigned the .pl extension to be ran by another program than perl. (A text editor for example).
I have also noticed that ruby installer sets some environment variables that affect the way some perl program works, and I also had an issue with cpan that displayed a warning message (after I've installed ruby) because of a certain environment variable that was set. Octavian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dmitri Pissarenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <activeperl@listserv.ActiveState.com> Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 2:01 PM Subject: Problem with PPM > Hello! > > I'm running ActiveState Perl on a Windows machine (Windows XP Home). > > Last week I created an application with Perl Catalyst and everything > worked fine. > > During the week I installed several new application on my machine > (putty, doxygen, ruby on rails, eclipse 3.2 with several plugins). > > Now, I've tried to execute ppm and got following error message: > > Error: neither > 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/ActiveState/PPM//InstallLocation' no > r 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER/SOFTWARE/ActiveState/PPM//InstallLocation' found in > registr > y at D:\Programme\Perl\bin/ppm.bat line 29. > > Another strange thing: when I enter something like > "script\myapp_server.pl" I'm getting a window, in which I have to > select the application with which the pl file should be opened. And I > can't select Perl. > > As I said before, last week everything worked fine and I suppose that > one of the applications I installed broke Perl. > > How can I fix this problem? > > Should I re-install Perl? > > Thanks in advance > > Dmitri Pissarenko > > P. S.: "perl -v" returns this: > > This is perl, v5.8.4 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread > (with 3 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail) > > Copyright 1987-2004, Larry Wall > > Binary build 810 provided by ActiveState Corp. http://www.ActiveState.com > ActiveState is a division of Sophos. > Built Jun 1 2004 11:52:21 > > Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or > the > GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit. > > Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on > this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'. If you have access to the > Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home Page. > _______________________________________________ > ActivePerl mailing list > ActivePerl@listserv.ActiveState.com > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list ActivePerl@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
