Dear Esteemed Monks and Nuns, I have run into trouble. I could use some of your hard won wisdom to solve a problem I'm having.

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I tried to install perl-5.20.1. It's been a while since I did some programing in perl so I'm a bit rusty.

It wouldn't install properly so I ran harness to see which tests it failed.

I used the tar command and the configure command. However the test failed so i used harness. here's the results:

------------------- porting/exec-bit.t (Wstat: 0 Tests: 113 Failed: 3) Failed tests: 81-82, 110 Files=2405, Tests=699333, 1019 wallclock secs (161.74 usr 13.49 sys + 626.98 cusr 92.38 csys = 894.59 CPU) Result: FAIL

Here's the info about the OS that i'm using:

$ RELEASE=17 CODENAME=qiana EDITION="KDE 64-bit" DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 17 Qiana" DESKTOP=KDE TOOLKIT=QT NEW_FEATURES_URL=http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_qiana_kde_whatsnew.php RELEASE_NOTES_URL=http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_qiana_kde.php USER_GUIDE_URL=http://www.linuxmint.com/documentation.php GRUB_TITLE=Linux Mint 17 KDE 64-bit

How do I fix this so I can install my perl properly?

PS. feel free to move this to another forum if you don't think this post belongs here.

In reply to perl installation failed, need help by defborg

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