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 > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.483 / Virus Database: 279 - Release Date: 19/05/2003 > -- Kevin Mark <kmark@pipeline.com>
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part