This section describes a tutorial on installing ActivePerl 5.8.7 on a Windows system..
0. Rename the current Perl directory from \perl to \perl561
1. Go to http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/, and click the download button.
2. Download the ActivePerl 5.8.7, Windows MSI.
3. Double click on the downloaded file name: ActivePerl-5.8.7.813-MSWin32-x86-148120.msi, and
follow the installation tool to install ActivePerl to your system at \perl.
4. Open a command window, and type in perl. If you see the following output,
your installation is ok.
>perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.7 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 7 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
Copyright 1987-2005, Larry Wall
Binary build 813 [148120] provided by ActiveState
http://www.ActiveState.com
ActiveState is a division of Sophos.
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