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

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.

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.