FreeBSD and perl help please?

[elzergone]

I'm a total Linux/BSD/Whatever newbie, and I'm running into problems. I'm following the instructions on this page: http://www.grpl.org/ism/install.html#freebsd.

Its been smooth more or less untill I get to the part that says:

Manually installing modules:

You'll need the following modules, installed in order. After expanding each archive, the process will be to change into the expanded directory and issue:

# perl Makefile.PL

When I type in "perl Makefile.PL", I get an error that says "Cant open perl script "Makefile.PL"; No such file or directory."


Can anyone help? I'm in over my head. :confused:

[[H]EMI_426]

If you can, see if those Perl modules exist in the Ports system. Check FreeBSD's site and follow the link to the Ports page to find out more about installing stuff from Ports. If not, consider porting the application to run properly on FreeBSD. Being a port maintainer isn't hard (easy enough that anyone can do it).

Installing software outside the framework provided by the OS is generally a bad idea from an ease-of-maintenance point of view.