in reply to Problems installing Perl 5.8.8

Your best bet is to look inside the config script (it's probably shell script) to see where it's looking for perl, and then creating that symlink appropriately. For example, it may only look at /usr/bin/perl, and you may have installed perl as /usr/local/bin. It's hard to tell.

Also, when you're posting code or output, wrap it in <code>...</code> tags, or, for the lazy, in <c>...</c> tags, that way they display properly. This is part of the Writeup Formatting Tips that you see at the bottom of the screen after hitting the preview button. Thanks.

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Re^2: Problems installing Perl 5.8.8
by idle (Friar) on Mar 02, 2006 at 09:52 UTC
    Not so hard really :), simple command whereis will do it. 
    idle@fw:scripts#whereis perl
perl: /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/man/man1/perl.1.gz

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      Hi!! Tks for asking...

      I tried to run the 2 commands but can't do it... Would you pls tell me how to run it?

      # idle@fw:scripts#whereis perl
      idle@fw:scripts#whereis: not found
      # perl: /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/man/man1/perl.1.gz
      perl:: not found
      # pwd
      /usr/users/co653/install/perl-5.8.8
      #
      #
      # cd /usr/bin/perl
      # pwd
      /usr/local/bin/perl
      # # idle@fw:scripts#whereis perl
      idle@fw:scripts#whereis: not found
      # perl: /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/man/man1/perl.1.gz
      perl:: not found
      #

      Tks!!! =)
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        All before sign # in my previous reply is command prompt, you don't need it to repeat in your shell. Just type:
        whereis perl
        You can check man for whereis for more details.
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