From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 10:15:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from icarus.slightlystrange.org (icarus.slightlystrange.org [62.190.193.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7081637B9CF for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 09:52:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from danielby by icarus.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17D6b1-0008QS-00 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 17:46:47 +0100 Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 17:46:47 +0100 From: Daniel Bye To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Empty /usr/local Message-ID: <20020529164647.GA31381@icarus.slightlystrange.org> Reply-To: dan@slightlystrange.org Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org References: <20020529162751.JLUM11426.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@rwcrwbc58> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020529162751.JLUM11426.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@rwcrwbc58> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 04:27:51PM +0000, stephenc@attbi.com wrote: > I'm kinda new to FreeBSD, I just downloaded and > installed it last week and just about everything is > going fine. I am trying to install some CPAN perl > modules though and they seemed to install correctly but > when I try to use them perl can't find them. > > I ran " perl '-V:install.*' " and a lot of variables are > pointing to directories under /usr/local/*. I checked > and I don't have anything in /usr/local/, the directory > is completely empty. I'm somewhat familiar with Linux so > it seems to me that this directory should have something > in it. Shouldn't it? Well, no. The base system lives in /bin, /sbin, /etc, /var etc, and any apps you install tend to go under /usr/local. If you were to install something from the Ports collection, you'd see it went in /usr/local. What does your @INC say? And did CPAN claim to have installed your modules correctly? The standard Perl library get installed under /usr/libdata/perl, so it's possible that CPAN put them there (I'm not sure of this, though, so this information is provided "as is" with- out warranty, blah blah blah ;-) > > FreeBSD 4.4 > Perl5 > Trying to install Net::Telnet Just as an aside, try installing this from the Ports - it lives in /usr/ports/net/p5-Net-Telnet Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message