On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 3:59 AM, Matt Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all. Apologies if this is the wrong venue for this question. If > it is, please forgive me and point me in the right direction.
This is _a_ venue for these kinds of questions. There's also the #win32 channel at irc.perl.org, it tend to be pretty quiet but some knowledgeable people lurk there. > My user account at work doesn't have admin privileges, but I can log > on as a local admin. I did this to install strawberry perl and to > configure and test CPAN. This all worked fine, but when I then logged > on using my user AD account and tried to use the CPAN client, I get > the following error: That's a new one to me, but I haven't run as non-admin personally. Others have and I haven't heard of this error before. > The windows system I'm using is XP pro 2002 SP2 running on a 3.2GHz > pentium 4 with 4Gb of RAM. perl -v reports as 5.10.0 for > MSWin32-x86-multi-thread. If any other info would be helpful then > please administer the cluebat. Which version of Strawberry did you download -- the 5.10.0.1 version released a couple days ago? Or something older? Please run 'perl -V' (capital V) and look at the "Compiled at ..." date at the bottom. If you are comfortable with it, could you try running the same thing while logged in as local admin? That would help narrow down whether this is a permissions issue or not. A workaround would be to disable CPAN::SQLite support and let CPAN.pm use the old-fashioned text indices: $ cpan cpan> o conf use_sqlite no cpan> o conf commit > On a different subject, I was wondering if it might be an idea to > better publicise the subscription instructions for this list so that > people seeking vanilla/strawberry perl support can find it more easily > (especially since SP now has an official release). I found out about > this list after some googling found references to the list address on > win32.perl.org (which doesn't seem to be linked from the strawberry > perl site - should it be?) and then couldn't find any subscription > instructions! This is a known issue -- we're working on the best way to direct people for support. > Anyway, please take that in the constructive manner in which it was > intended - the people working on vanilla and strawberry are clearly > dong a great job at giving us lovely software for free, so I don't > want to come across as a moaner. Thanks for the positive feedback! Regards, David
