Perl missing for gift installation

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?

Try microperl.

Code:

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ipkg install microperl

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Originally Posted by macsat

Try microperl.

Code:

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ipkg install microperl

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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 !

Try this:

Code:

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

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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

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Originally Posted by 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

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Thank you. Installation is now OK.

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

Code:

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$ 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.

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

Do not use gift-setup, configure it manually.

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

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Originally Posted by Oleg

Do not use gift-setup, configure it manually.

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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.

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

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Originally Posted by 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

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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.

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