Perl

R.Mostafa · 03-26-2013, 12:47 AM

I installed perl successfully and it gave this message:

Please modify your startup environment by adding:

/opt/ActivePerl-5.16/site/bin:/opt/ActivePerl-5.16/bin to PATH
/opt/ActivePerl-5.16/site/man:/opt/ActivePerl-5.16/man to MANPATH

How can I do this?

pan64 · 03-26-2013, 02:08 AM

usually those variables should be set in /etc/profile. but it also depends on your login shell

Turbocapitalist · 03-26-2013, 04:26 AM

Something may be wrong if you had to install perl. It should be there by default on most (all?) distros. What distro are you using?

R.Mostafa · 03-27-2013, 10:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pan64

usually those variables should be set in /etc/profile. but it also depends on your login shell

I have bash shell, Do you mean to add this to .bashrc?

chrism01 · 03-27-2013, 11:31 PM

I'm with Turbocapitalist, its normally part of the std install.
what distro+version?

Code:

cat /etc/*release*

On Centos its /usr/bin/perl; try

Code:

which perl

Where did you get that perl from/how/why did you install it; AFAIK ActivePerl is usually only found on non-*nix eg MSWin.

R.Mostafa · 03-28-2013, 01:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrism01

I'm with Turbocapitalist, its normally part of the std install.
what distro+version?

Code:

cat /etc/*release*

On Centos its /usr/bin/perl; try

Code:

which perl

Where did you get that perl from/how/why did you install it; AFAIK ActivePerl is usually only found on non-*nix eg MSWin.

It is binary distribution version 5.16. I already had old one 5.8.8 but I need the latest one.
I get it from http://www.perl.org/get.html

chrism01 · 03-28-2013, 01:50 AM

As pan64 said, just do as it says.
PATH (& MANPATH) might be set in /etc/profile (or /etc/profile.d dir) for ALL users.
For personal customisations, see your personal .bash_profile