Perl Installation Error
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I tried installing Perl from the command line and it errors out for me. I am on pfsense 2.2.4.
pkg install perl5
outputs…
The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
New packages to be INSTALLED:
perl5: 5.20.3_8The process will require 49 MiB more space.
Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
[1/1] Installing perl5-5.20.3_8…
[1/1] Extracting perl5-5.20.3_8: 100%
makewhatis: not found
makewhatis: not found
pkg: POST-INSTALL script failed
Message from perl5-5.20.3_8:
The /usr/bin/perl symlink has been removed starting with Perl 5.20.
For shebangs, you should either use:#!/usr/local/bin/perl
or
#!/usr/bin/env perl
The first one will only work if you have a /usr/local/bin/perl,
the second will work as long as perl is in PATH.
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