Hello All,

First, I find it very surprising that after the installation of Fedora OS, I couldn't find Perl on it, when I fire the command "perl -v", it returns " command not found". So, really not sure if I have done any mistake, as the OS installation was successful with no errors, I have given 22 GB disk space to the OS in my Oracle VirtualBox.

Second, I downloaded the ActivePerl-5.20.2.2002-x86_64-linux-glibc-2.15-299195.tar from perl.org. extracted it, and fired the command

# tar -xvf ActivePerl-5.20.2.2002-x86_64-linux-glibc-2.15-299195.tar

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It went fine, then I fired the command

# ./install.sh

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There was some interactive questions including "Enter top level directory for install? [/opt/ActivePerl-5.20]"

Since I wanted to install/configure the Perl under following path

/opt/perl/ActivePerl-5.20

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So, I have given the path, and hit enter, it progressed without any flaws, and installation was success, and I got the following directories.files in the above path.

[root@fedora ActivePerl-5.20]# ll
total 24
drwxr-xr-x.   2 root root 4096 Jul 19 14:44 bin
drwxrwxr-x.   2 root root 4096 Sep 20 02:13 etc
drwxr-xr-x.   8 root root 4096 Sep 20 02:13 html
drwxr-xr-x. 101 root root 4096 Jul 19 14:44 lib
drwxr-xr-x.   4 root root 4096 Jul 19 12:45 man
drwxr-xr-x.   3 root root 4096 Jul 19 12:44 site

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I then went to .bash_profile, and set the env variable as 

PATH=/opt/perl/ActivePerl-5.20

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However,I could see the following path already mentioned in the above path 

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin

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I had commented the path before I put mine .

Size to /opt is 4 GB.

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In reply to Issue with ActivePerl installation on Fedora 20 by as00060

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