Techie help needed!!

[Jacques]

OK need some help with Perl.

I have no experience with Perl and am totally in the dark so idiot instruction please if you can help - ta.

I have Perl running under Windows XP using Activestate

I have an image processing script that I need to run using Perl.

The script (and .conf files) are zipped with .tar extension

I also require several modules to be installed, which I have and are also .tar extensions

No problem in unzipping but I believe that you need to do it in Perl?

So far so good.

The install instructions I was given may as well be Toureg!! No idea how to follow them. So:

How do I install the modules?
(I have the Activestate ppm packet manager installed, what I need to do I have no idea)

How do I intsall and run the Perl script?


Instructions given were:

You need:

Date::Calc
Date::Parse
Getopt::Long
Math::VecStat
Math::Round
Pod::Usage
GD

Script:

tar -xvfz scriptname.tgz
cd scriptname.tgz
/usr/bin/perl scriptname -conf image-01.conf
# extra debug information
/usr/bin/perl scriptname -conf image-01.conf -debug


Any help is gratefully received.

Ta!

[Steve R]

Hello Jacques,

I'm afraid the best I can offer is to make you a nice cup of tea.

[Jacques]

Oh Ta! Can I have a Jaffa Cake too?

[Jacques]

OK back to the days of DOS and I figured out how to run the script.

Of course it doesn't run pased line 76 as it needs the modules installed, so any help with this?

[Jacques]

Sorted!!

Ta for the tea Steve !thumbsup!

[Steve R]

Ah, congrats on getting it working!

I hope you didn't descend to my level by dunking your Jaffa Cake? !wink!

[Jacques]

Never!!! Jaffa's are not for dunking

[Steve R]

!oops!

[Porn crackers]

I was going to say "have you contacted Jacques" he'll crack it and I was right. !grin!

PC

[Jacques]

LOL!!! Do I have a reputation now? This could be embarasing in the future......