Where is perldoc in Mandriva 2006.0? [solved]

[Guest ropati]

I've finished a fresh installation of Mandriva 2006 and updated all the modules.

 

When I try and run perldoc in bash there is on command found.

If I do a find / -name "perldoc" there is no command on the machine

I see that most of the perl documents are in the man folders, but I am concerned that man might not display the specific perl documents.

 

here is the output of perl -V

 

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 7) configuration:

Platform:

osname=linux, osvers=2.6.3-28mdk-i686-up-4gb, archname=i386-linux

uname='linux mercury.mandriva.com 2.6.3-28mdk-i686-up-4gb #1 thu sep 29 11:26:42 mdt 2005 i686 intel® pentium® 4 cpu 3.00ghz unknown gnulinux '

config_args='-des -Dinc_version_list=5.8.6 5.8.6/i386-linux 5.8.5 5.8.4 5.8.3 5.8.2 5.8.1 5.8.0 5.6.1 5.6.0 -Darchname=i386-linux -Dcc=gcc -Doptimize=-O2 -pipe -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=i586 -mtune=pentiumpro -Dprefix=/usr -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dsiteprefix=/usr -Dsitebin=/usr/local/bin -Dsiteman1dir=/usr/local/share/man/man1 -Dsiteman3dir=/usr/local/share/man/man3 -Dman3ext=3pm -Dcf_by=Mandriva -Dmyhostname=localhost -Dperladmin=root@localhost -Dcf_email=root@localhost -Dd_dosuid -Ud_csh -Duseshrplib -Accflags=-DPERL_DISABLE_PMC'

hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define

usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef

useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef

use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef

usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef

Compiler:

cc='gcc', ccflags ='-DPERL_DISABLE_PMC -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm',

optimize='-O2 -pipe -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=i586 -mtune=pentiumpro',

cppflags='-DPERL_DISABLE_PMC -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gdbm'

ccversion='', gccversion='4.0.1 (4.0.1-5mdk for Mandriva Linux release 2006.0)', gccosandvers=''

intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234

d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12

ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8

alignbytes=4, prototype=define

Linker and Libraries:

ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'

libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib

libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc

perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc

libc=/lib/libc-2.3.5.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so

gnulibc_version='2.3.5'

Dynamic Linking:

dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/i386-linux/CORE'

cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

 

 

Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):

Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES

Locally applied patches:

Mandriva Linux patches (cf the source RPM)

Built under linux

Compiled at Dec 6 2005 10:20:01

@INC:

/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/i386-linux

/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7

/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux

/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7

/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl

/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux

/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7

/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6

/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux

/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5

/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4

/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3

/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1

/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl

 

Any ideas how or why perldoc is missing?

[spinynorman]

Welcome to the board. :)

 

There's a perl-doc package (which includes perldoc) on the 5th CD, but there's an updated version at rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/2580846/com/perl-doc-5.8.7-3.2.20060mdk.i586.rpm.html.

[Guest ropati]

spinynorman,

 

Thanks for the pointer. It fixed my problem and I'm up and running. :D

 

I do wonder why perldoc isn't part of the perl installation or part of the perl update for Mandriva 2006. I downloaded the free version so I don't have a CD5.

 

I'm fairly new to Linux, but I understand that perldoc is part of the base perl package and if the Mandriva packaging team forgot to package it originally, they would add it to the updates not an auxilary CD. I spent a good deal of time googlng "Mandriva and perldoc" without finding this issue.

 

Is this subtle way to mangle the free install so users will buy the CD package?

[tyme]

I highly doubt it. You can simply set up your sources with easy-urpmi and you would have access to it.

[spinynorman]

Thanks for the pointer. It fixed my problem and I'm up and running. :D

 

Is this subtle way to mangle the free install so users will buy the CD package?

There is only so much space on 3 CDs, and documentation tends to get a low priority...

[Guest ropati]

I apologize for thinking such unpure thoughts.

 

I did have rpmdrake configured properly, but I didn't see the perl-doc rpm in the ftp://../main.

[tyme]

It's in the updates, it may also be in contrib (where you usually find stuff that's on the later CDs)