17 May 2012 19:16
CPAN fix for perl for optware
I have optware on my router with 32mb and I got perl but the module I wanted wasn't available via ipkg so I went to use CPAN to find it wouldn't work... Even if I did configure it correctly (i'm 99% sure i did since i had expert help) it would have taken days to do anything as using swap made it slooooooow) I started off with this site http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/ConfigureCPAN and that didn't cut it. I moved over to using cpanm - https://github.com/miyagawa/cpanminus but that gave an error so i did this https://github.com/shadowcat-mst/cpanminus/commit/9eba7dd0af9e63a4cadde8b0f5483a43a5e63deb **** credit goes to wtf911(myself) and mst***** With that cpanm works good and you just need the proper ipkgs prior to using it... i can't say what if all of these you need: binutils expat glib grep gzip less libc6-unslung libdb libgcc libxml2 lynx man ncftp ncursesw(Continue reading)
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