Start Padre on gentoo box

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks,

I have installed Padre via cpan on my gentoo linux. The installation inclusive test was successful after installing packages wxperl-0.82, Alien-wxWidget-0.34, and other depending cpan modules like PPI, ORLite ...
But I am not able to start the editor. I found following information on cpan.org: "You should be able to just type in padre and get the editor working.". It doesn't work on my box. There is no command padre.
I found that there is a new Padre.pm and Padre directory in /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8.
How do I start Padre? I guess the answer is really simple.

Thanks, Andreas

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Re: Start Padre on gentoo box by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 30, 2008 at 21:41 UTC
In theory, the `padre` script gets installed into the same directory as your `perl` binary, so you should be able to run it by finding the place of Perl via `which perl` and then use that path: `$ which perl /opt/perl/bin/perl $ /opt/perl/bin/padre` [download] But if Perl were in your path, then `padre` would also be. So do a `find / -name 'padre'`, wait some time, and then hopefully your computer will have found where the `padre` script lies. Alternatively, just copy padre to a file on your machine, make it executable and you have your own, personal `padre`, provided that the rest of the installation worked.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Start Padre on gentoo box by Anonymous Monk on Oct 30, 2008 at 22:24 UTC
Thanks Corion! The padre script isn't in my perl binary directory: `~ $ which perl /usr/bin/perl ~ $ ls /usr/bin/padre ls: /usr/bin/padre: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden` [download] So I tried to copy the file in my home directory. After executing this script I realized that I have to compile perl with USE flag ithreads. So hopefully it's solved after recompiling perl. Thanks again, Andreas	[reply] [d/l]