Re: Perl installation help

A few questions for clarification:

Which Windows 8? (RT vs. Pro, 32 vs. 64 bit)
Which Perl? Okay, you already mentioned Strawberry and ActivePerl. Which version of Perl? (5.16? 5.14? 5.003?)
How have you confirmed that Perl installation fails? (perl --version from PowerShell, writing and double clicking a script, ...?)

For what it's worth, I have ActivePerl 5.16 happily installed on a Windows 8 Pro partition at home. All I did was run the installer. I needed to log out and back in before the path changes were applied, but once I did that perl --version in PowerShell gave me the expected response.

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Re^2: Perl installation help by Anonymous Monk on Sep 25, 2013 at 18:08 UTC
I have window 8 pro version. here i want to install perl. i have tried for strawberry(5.18.1) and active(5.16) perl both per unable to instal it on my window 8. every time this error comes : this installer pkg could not be opened and contact to the application vendor that it is a valid window installer. will u plz help me out	[reply]

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