Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:43:41 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@tiac.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possible install problem from SNAP directories Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980224124211.26338P-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199802232225.RAA19665@navisite.net>
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On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > I installed today from 2.2-980222-SNAP of releng22.freebsd.org and noticed > a couple of problems. Firstly, it doesn't seem to pick up everything in > the packages directory for optional installation. Namely, I went to > install perl modules and it complained it couldn't find a dependency (perl > itself!). This happened with TCL/TK as well. It probably wants Perl5. Realize that releng22 doesn't have the packages trees; if you want them you'll have to get them from the tree or the CD. > So, I went to look at the packages directly..... and there was > perl-5.0040.tgz and some other things. As it turns out, this package > installs it in /usr/local/bin BUT there is already a perl installed in > /usr/bin (4.0 PL 36 ;-). > > Am I missing something here or is there a problem? This is correct. Most people rename perl to perl4 and add a symlink from /usr/bin/perl to /usr/local/bin/perl. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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