How to fix ActivePerl's PPM "database disk image is malformed" error?

Question

I've recently installed ActivePerl 18 (v5.18.2) 64bits on Windows 8.1, and ppm keeps producing the same error : DBD::SQLite::db selectrow_array failed: database disk image is malformed.

Here's an exerpt from my command prompt:

ppm install Win32-Console-ANSI
ppm install failed: DBD::SQLite::db selectrow_array failed: database disk image is malformed

ppm rep
ppm rep failed: DBD::SQLite::db selectrow_array failed: database disk image is malformed

ppm
ppm gui failed: DBD::SQLite::db selectrow_array failed: database disk image is malformed

Owsley

Answer 1

I had similar problem. I solved it, I cleanned AppData folder of ActivePerl. I found that under:

C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\ActiveState\ActivePerl\

Remove all data from that folder.

Please try it can help you.

Aplanospore

Answer 2

I fixed mine by deleting "C:\Perl64\etc\ppm-perl-area.db" and C:\Perl64\site\etc\ppm-site-area.db". Both were rebuilt when ppm was restarted.

Panic

Answer 3

I could solve mine by renaming the
ppm-MSWin32-x64-multi-thread-5_20.db
as
ppm-MSWin32-x64-multi-thread-5_20.db_

and then renaming
ppm-MSWin32-x64-multi-thread-5_20.db.old
in
ppm-MSWin32-x64-multi-thread-5_20.db

Automat

Answer 4

Try updating your DBD::SQLite package directly from CPAN. Or, try telling PPM to upgrade everything. If those don't want to work, you may need to reinstall ActivePerl.

HTH!
TheJester1977

Inerrable

Try downloading and installing the 32-bit version. I've found that sometimes 64-bit software packages don't play together as nicely as they should. – Inerrable