Perl and Perl64

Freezer has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,

I have both Perl and Perl64 on my machine. These folders each have sub folders with libraries in them, as in folder:lib. When I call up ppm how will it know where to put the cpan modules? Also, how do I activate use of Perl64 instead of Perl. The other question I have is regarding removing a subfolder from the lib directory. My windows PC won’t let me do that by right clicking. It says that another program is using the folder. I don't want to have to reboot unless I really need to.

Freezer

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Re: Perl and Perl64 by bulk88 (Priest) on Aug 01, 2012 at 17:44 UTC
Your path setting/path enviromental variable determined which PPM is called, unless the current directory is someperl/bin.	[reply]
Re: Perl and Perl64 by Anonymous Monk on Aug 01, 2012 at 22:06 UTC
I think a lot depends on how you installed ActivePerl, and if you let it diddle with the registry -- mostly its %PATH% managment, see "help set" , "help ftype", "help assoc", site:perlmonks.org BrowserUk ftype assoc 64	[reply]

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