Look, I’m with you. Self sufficiency is a good thing. But if the answer to every problem is RTFM, what do we need SoPW for? And if there isn’t a manual, we could just direct people to go read the code. The answers are all there in the code if only people are willing to put in the effort, right?

By your own admission you didn't read the documentation. Sometimes the answer to the question is as straight forward as telling the person that they have to do something outlined in the documentation, which I linked to. Nobody claims the answer to "every problem is RTFM". Here I suggest you take the time to read the documentation in question, and learn the basics of the tools you're trying to use.

Update: Which reminds me you'd already had all this pointed out to you the last time you asked.

That was a different situation. I was trying to get it installed on my Mac, not on a Debian machine with a local version of Perl. If I recall, what I ended up doing is installing all of mysql on the machine to get it working. The advice I was given on that node, though I'm thankful for it, was beyond my comprehension and I couldn't figure it out.

Any how many times do I have to say it? It doesn't do any good to read documentation you can't understand or follow.

I think, very often, the underlying sentiment of RTFM is YADA (you're a dumb ass). Fine. I'm a dumb ass, if that makes you feel better about yourself.

Appropriate XKCD cartoon here.

$PM = "Perl Monk's";
$MCF = "Most Clueless Friar Abbot Bishop Pontiff Deacon Curate Priest";
$nysus = $PM . ' ' . $MCF;
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