[GNC] Trouble installing Strawberry perl

[David H]

Also remove C:\Strawberry folder after uninstall if anything left around?

Cheers David H.


On Mon, 1 Nov 2021 at 05:53, David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nope, just rebooted into Win 10 Pro to have a look as I've got SB perl
> installed there and I don't have that file either.  May be temporary during
> installation,suggest you check under Control Panel\All Control Panel
> Items\Programs and Features and see if it thinks it's partially installed?
> If so, remove and start again...
>
> Cheers David H.
>
>
> On Mon, 1 Nov 2021 at 05:49, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you David.  I tried the Install online price retrieval for GnuCash
>> script again and it still gives the error about the missing .vbs file.  Do
>> you know how that file is supposed to be created?
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 31, 2021, 2:31 PM David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> David,
>>>
>>> Seems like the StrawberryPerl web page is back up, suggest you give it
>>> another shot.
>>>
>>> Cheers David H.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 1 Nov 2021 at 03:33, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am trying to install Perl with the script in the GnuCash program
>>>> folder
>>>> in Windows 10.   I accidentally forgot to use administrator rights the
>>>> first time,  repeated with rights, but it fails with error Input error:
>>>> Could not find script file "C:\Windows\system32\getperl.vbs".
>>>>
>>>> I also found that the https://strawberryperl ... download page is
>>>> inaccessible, one needs to use a different route to download strawberry
>>>> Perl 5.32.1.1 32 or 64 .msi.
>>>>
>>>> Can someone help me get out of this rabbit hole?
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