Hi Monks

So the start of this story is that ten years ago I switched from Linux to Windows to take advantage of certain software I needed. But the latest Windows 10 of April 2018 hit me on Wednesday with a catch 22 bug. It wouldn't update owing to obsolete SDIs but when I removed those from the registry I couldn't log back in because the upgrade had mad Windows dependent on them. So it's goodbye Windows forever now and time to catch up on the latest Linux distros - in any case, my Perl/Postgres project was destined to be migrated to linux at some time.

I started with Linux Mint, where using vim I grepped all the C:/Users/simon -> /home/simon and similarly with all the locations of postgres tools which my test suite needs to run to refresh the test env.

After successfully installing one module needed by cpanm, it wouldn't install Term::ReadKey. It appeared that cc wasn't working in spite of pointing to gcc. But because the latest gcc was already delivered with Mint, I would have to manually configure /usr/bin/cc to point to /usr/bin/gcc. One cursory effort and a can of worms opened up - much more is needed to configure cc to use gcc it seems and I don't want to overhack my distro.

So the next distro to try, Ubuntu escaped the problem by an ironic means: because it had an older gcc delivered, I was able to simply do a clean install of gcc and everything was hunky dory for perl installations.

But it seems a shame to ditch Mint with its nice UI over this. Anyone had similar experiences?

Thanks!

One world, one people

In reply to problem installing perl modules under Linux Mint by anonymized user 468275

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