This section provides a tutorial example on how to install ActivePerl v5.6.1 on a Windows 2000 system.
If you are using a Windows system and want to run Perl scripts, you can install
the free binary package, ActivePerl, provided by ActiveState. Here is what I did
to install ActivePerl v5.6.1 on a Windows 2000 system.
1. Go to http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/, and click the download button.
2. Download the ActivePerl 5.6.1 build 635, Windows MSI.
3. Double click on the downloaded file name: ActivePerl-5.6.1.635-MSWin32-x86.msi, and
follow the installation tool to install ActivePerl to your hard drive at C:\perl.
4. Open a command window, and type in "perl -v". If you see the following output,
your installation is ok.
>perl -v
This is perl, v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)
Copyright 1987-2001, Larry Wall
Binary build 631 provided by ActiveState Tool Corp.
http://www.ActiveState.com
Built 17:16:22 Jan 2 2002
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