From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 10:21:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from roc-66-66-120-36.rochester.rr.com (roc-66-66-120-36.rochester.rr.com [66.66.120.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D73A737C140 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 10:13:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by roc-66-66-120-36.rochester.rr.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F09B2901A00; Wed, 29 May 2002 12:47:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 12:47:42 -0400 From: mpd To: stephenc@attbi.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Empty /usr/local Message-ID: <20020529124742.A63044@rochester.rr.com> References: <20020529162751.JLUM11426.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@rwcrwbc58> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020529162751.JLUM11426.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@rwcrwbc58>; from stephenc@attbi.com on Wed, May 29, 2002 at 04:27:51PM +0000 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? If it's a fresh install (i.e. you haven't yet installed any other software beyond the base system) I don't believe anything would be there yet. > > FreeBSD 4.4 > Perl5 > Trying to install Net::Telnet I would recommend just installing it via the ports collection. /usr/ports/net/p5-Net-Telnet > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thank you > Stephen > mike -- ___________________________________________________________ "GOOD DAY POKEY! YOU ARE RIGHT! ONLY PROPER GARDENING WILL MAKE YOUR GARDEN GROW!" - Mr. Nutty from "WHAT WILL MAKE YOUR GARDEN GROW" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message