Help getting set up

[GezH]

Hi all. I used to program Perl at work, but it's been a while, and it was on machines that were already setup by sys-admins. Now I'm trying to set up a Linux/Perl environment at home and having a couple of problems.

Firstly, I'm having trouble installing modules. I want to install the CPAN module, so that I can then install further modules using cpan. So I'm following the standard command line install procedure (gzip / tar / Makefile.pl etc) and when I get to typing the 'make' command I get 'command not found'.

The machine I am using is an Acer Aspire One Netbook, which came pre-installed with Linux (Linpus Linux Lite) and contains Perl v 5.8.8. It's on the bash shell.

Why can't I find 'make'? Surely that is a standard shell command. I've looked in all the usual linux directories (/usr/bin, /usr/local/bin etc). Also, I'm not root, as the terminal opens up as user 'user', but as far as I know we were not given a root password.

Any suggestions appreciated!

 

[tonykent]

Have you used the 'which make' command? If it's there somewhere that ought to tell you, then you can just put in the full path to its location.

I'm not familiar with Linpus Linux Lite so I can't tell you whether or not it comes with 'make' as standard. If it doesn't then you could always install gcc make or similar.