From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 24 12:43:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA04455 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:43:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA04443 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:43:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA26422; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:43:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:43:41 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Forrest Aldrich cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possible install problem from SNAP directories In-Reply-To: <199802232225.RAA19665@navisite.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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