Failure, need help : i tried to update Strawberry Perl naively, and broke it

Hi all, i did something stupid yesterday : i tried to update Strawberry Perl without switching my brain on.
I downloaded the latest version of Strawberry Perl, clicked "Install", and guessed : "Either it's going to work, or it's going to tell me in advance that it's not going to work".
Well, guess what, it didn't give me any warning, seemed to install properly, and now nothing works anymore.
* EDIT : i was wrong,

perl -e "print 'Hello'"
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works properly. But

perl -e "use Data::Alias; print 'Hello'"
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crashes.

Whether i try to call

>cpan
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or any of my scripts, a window opens and tells me : "perl.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

What can i do now to fix it all ?

I'm on Windows XP. My previous version of Perl was v5.12.3, and the one i tried to install is v5.16.2 (which is what is now indicated when i do "perl -v").

I guess i should have used something like perlbrew to avoid this problem.

Thank you for any help !

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Re: Failure, need help : i naively tried to update Strawberry Perl, and broke it by Anonymous Monk on Dec 11, 2012 at 08:02 UTC
What can i do now to fix it all ? You might reboot so that any pendmoves get deleted then reinstall Or `pskill perl` then reinstall Or Uninstall (even if you have to `rm -rfv C:\strawberry` ) then reinstall I guess i should have used something like perlbrew to avoid this problem. Nope, perlbrew is linux only, and some like perlall better than perlbrew This is purely strawberryperl installer bug territory -- maybe try the .zip only installer An installer should be able to detect any conflicting perl.exe processes running, warn about installing in an old directory, overwrite said directory and all files successfully or warn you, ask to add shortcuts, ask to modify registry settings (add to %PATH%, add ftype/assoc )... but I've not used strawberry in a while	[reply]
Re^2: Failure, need help : i naively tried to update Strawberry Perl, and broke it by mascip (Monk) on Dec 11, 2012 at 08:14 UTC
Thank you. Next time i'll go for perlall then. I sent a bug report to the Strawberry Perl people. I rebooted already, so i guess my only option is to uninstall and re-install. I'd like not to have to re-install all the CPAN modules that i have, if possible. Is there any way to do this ? The worse case scenario that i imagined involves copying all of the tar files and re-installing each manually, in order to avoid downloading them again. I hope i won't have to do this.	[reply]
Re^3: Failure, need help : i naively tried to update Strawberry Perl, and broke it by Anonymous Monk on Dec 11, 2012 at 08:22 UTC
I rebooted already, so i guess my only option is to uninstall and re-install. I'd like not to have to re-install all the CPAN modules that i have, if possible. You would have to do that anyway going from 5.12 to 5.16	[reply]
Re^4: Failure, need help : i naively tried to update Strawberry Perl, and broke it by mascip (Monk) on Dec 11, 2012 at 08:25 UTC
Re^4: Failure, need help : i naively tried to update Strawberry Perl, and broke it by mascip (Monk) on Dec 11, 2012 at 08:56 UTC
Re^5: Failure, need help : i naively tried to update Strawberry Perl, and broke it by Anonymous Monk on Dec 11, 2012 at 09:20 UTC
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