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RE: Doh - i'm having a THICK moment



Hi Chris,
do:
whereis perl
perl -v
(if you want to use 'locate' do this)
updatedb
locate perl |more

I just tried to install it:
root@box:~# apt-get install webmin
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libauthen-pam-perl libnet-ssleay-perl
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libauthen-pam-perl libnet-ssleay-perl webmin
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1200kB of archives.
After unpacking 6382kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://ftp2.de.debian.org testing/main libauthen-pam-perl 0.13-3
[35.3kB]
Get:2 http://ftp2.de.debian.org testing/main libnet-ssleay-perl 1.22-1
[165kB] 
Get:3 http://ftp2.de.debian.org testing/main webmin 1.080-1
[999kB]            
Fetched 1200kB in 7m45s
(2578B/s)                                              
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package libauthen-pam-perl.
(Reading database ... 88569 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libauthen-pam-perl (from
.../libauthen-pam-perl_0.13-3_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libnet-ssleay-perl.
Unpacking libnet-ssleay-perl (from
.../libnet-ssleay-perl_1.22-1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package webmin.
Unpacking webmin (from .../webmin_1.080-1_all.deb) ...
Setting up libauthen-pam-perl (0.13-3) ...
Setting up libnet-ssleay-perl (1.22-1) ...
Setting up webmin (1.080-1) ...
miniserv.pem: No such file or directory
Starting webmin: webmin.

And I'm sorry to report that it works! That darn debian apt-get has
super-cow powers! did you go to https://localhost:10000?
BTW, I just did apt-get dist-upgrade about 2 days ago and updated perl
to 5.8.0.
-K



On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 03:21, Chris Short wrote:
> That was te point - I cant install webmin without perl
> 
> However when I do apt-get install perl   it tells me I already have the
> latest package.
> 
> Yet I cant find perl on my system, its not in the places webmin is looking
> for it.  And grep il perl didn’t find anything either.
> 
> 
> Any clues please?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seneca Cunningham [mailto:seneca-cunningham@rogers.com] 
> Sent: 23 May 2003 01:43
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> 
> On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 01:07:37AM +0100, Chris Short wrote:
> > Ok - I got my webmin package I want to run.
> > The problem is it need PERL and this wasn?t in the basic list that was
> > installed...grr.
> 
> perl wasn't installed?  I just took a look at the dependancies for
> webmin, and perl is listed.  How could you have installed webmin without
> apt installing perl for you?
> 
> > Looking at the Perl pages it says it comes with debian since version5!!
> > 
> > So, the simple question is how do I install it please?
> 
> apt-get install perl
> 
> -- 
> Seneca
> seneca-cunningham@rogers.com
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