Wanted X, got Perl - operator error or prequisiste

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Fri May 9 13:11:00 GMT 2003


Matt,

> When I selected the XFree stuff, I started setup.exe and it was in category mode. The only category I picked/expanded was XFree. So, at least in
> this session, I did not select any other packages except for what was under XFree. If I had selected them in any other session, I would have had
> Perl downloaded in that session. Selections that are not installed are not stored between invocations ( I just proved that).
> 
> So there is either a bug in the program or a bug in my head. If I had to make a bet, I'd bet on the bug being in my head, in spite of my protests to
> the contrary above. :-)

I just did a test of selecting only the XFree86 category in setup.exe... 
perl still was not selected.  You must have just accidentally bumped 
something.

Harold



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