Perl missing for gift installation

[kdudl]

I tried to install the unslung program gift. With no success. "perl" is announced as missing:

Installing gift (0.11.8.1-2) to root...
Downloading http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/un...1-2_mipsel.ipk
Nothing to be done
An error ocurred, return value: 1.
Collected errors:
ERROR: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for gift:
perl

Does someone know how to deal with this problem?

[macsat]

Try microperl.

ipkg install microperl

[kdudl]

Try microperl.

ipkg install microperl

Thank you for the hint. But microperl was already installed on my WL500g.
I tried to remove it and to install it again. But without success, Perl is yet announced as missing during gift installation.


P.S. out of context: congratulation for your tutorials; they are very useful !

[Oleg]

Try this:

ipkg install http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/unslung/wl500g/gift_0.11.8.1-1_mipsel.ipk

[Jean-Fabrice]

gift optware has been updated to depends on microperl
new version is gift_0.11.8.1-3_mipsel.ipk

try 'ipkg update' then 'ipkg install gift' and it should be ok.

let me know.

JF

[kdudl]

gift optware has been updated to depends on microperl
new version is gift_0.11.8.1-3_mipsel.ipk

try 'ipkg update' then 'ipkg install gift' and it should be ok.

let me know.

JF

Thank you. Installation is now OK.

But at starting of gift, it asks on execution of gift-setup script which does not work:

$ microperl gift-setup
Can't locate strict.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.9 .) at
gift-setup line 22.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at gift-setup line 22.

Has somebody already installed gift completly with success ? I searched the forum but found no answer (some threads mention the problem however).

[Oleg]

Do not use gift-setup, configure it manually.

[Oleg]

Use search...
http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?p=...etup#post12703

[kdudl]

Do not use gift-setup, configure it manually.

I tried to configure manually und succeeded. Gift is working well now. Thank you to you and Jean-Fabrice.

Remark: ipkg is not installing all gift directories on /opt. So it is necessary to change the placement of some files. I will try to describe the needed changes in a small how-to as quickly as possible in order to help other potential users.

[Jean-Fabrice]

I'd never use gift but if you feel some improvements should be done on the package, let me know.

I will check them and see if they can be added to the standard gift ipkg.

JF

[kdudl]

I'd never use gift but if you feel some improvements should be done on the package, let me know.

I will check them and see if they can be added to the standard gift ipkg.

JF

Thank you for the offer.
I am absent next week. On return I will look for that and on beginning of July I will give you a small report about my experience and eventually some wishes.

[WlanMan]

Hi

Gift is working here, with some manual tweaks as meantioned below.

A short guide:
- Make ipkg work
- install gift, gift-fasttrack, gift-gnutella and possibly gift-openft with ipkg
- cp the conf.template files unter /opt/share/gift and below to .conf files
- edit the files like you think they need to
- run giftd -d --local-dir=/opt/share/giFT
- use a controlling client of your choice from gift.sf.net, kceasy is good

The configuration script is not working, seems to be a missing pearl libary or something. If someone hase time a rewrite to shellscript is a nice idea.
Seems the compiled-in localdir and maybe other path´es are not suitable for the wl500g filesystem layout, should be a quick change in the makefile.

Gnutella and fasttrack are working here, openft cant connect and the other networks are broken anyways. But the two are working quite fine ... tnx

Greets
WlanMan