Problems installing Perl 5.8.8

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

Hi!! Firts of all i have to say I totaly new in perl, i need it 'cause i have to install OpenSSH in a unix tru64 4.0F system.

I download perl-5.8.8 and install it, no errors were shown, but when i try to install OpenSSL, a prompt tell me :

# ./config                       
Operating system: alpha-dec-tru64
You need Perl 5.
[download]

What can i do to make sure Perl 5 is correctlt installed?

Tks in advance for your response.

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Re: Problems installing Perl 5.8.8 by Tanktalus (Canon) on Mar 01, 2006 at 19:25 UTC
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.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Problems installing Perl 5.8.8 by idle (Friar) on Mar 02, 2006 at 04:52 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` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Problems installing Perl 5.8.8 by irasela (Initiate) on Mar 02, 2006 at 10:18 UTC
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!!! =)	[reply]
Re^4: Problems installing Perl 5.8.8 by idle (Friar) on Mar 02, 2006 at 12:24 UTC
Re^5: Problems installing Perl 5.8.8 by Anonymous Monk on Mar 02, 2006 at 16:45 UTC
Re^5: Problems installing Perl 5.8.8 by Anonymous Monk on Mar 02, 2006 at 18:30 UTC
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