Question

Hi,

I am following instructions for installing twiki on a winxp box. So far everything went as desired. However at the step where it asks you to run the following command

perl -pi~ -e 's;#!/usr/bin/perl;#!c:/twiki/tools/cygwin/bin/perl;' *[a-z]

It says perl:command not found.

I am pasting the output from several steps before to give you guys an idea.

vrao@vijay-laptop /twiki/bin $ head -1 view #!/usr/bin/perl -wT

vrao@vijay-laptop /twiki/bin $ perl -pi~ -e 's; #!/usr/bin/perl;#!c:/twiki/tools/cygwin/bin/perl;' *[a-z] bash: perl: command not found

Now what is it that I am missing? I am using cygwin. I searched the cygwin directory for perl.exe but there was no such file. The windowsinstallcookbook mentions that when I install cygwin I will get everything?

This is really frustrating. I have been trying to install this for 4 days now. Can someone please guide me through the install? I am really eager to install this in my company.

Thanks VJ

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-- VijayRao - 26 Feb 2007

Answer

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The error you are seeing is a path problem. You could change the shebang lines by hand to get past this step, but you may run into further problems later in the install process.

I'm curious as to why you are using Cygwin. If you are using a windows version of apache, I recommend using a windows version of perl such as indigo perl. Apache + Indigo Perl + RcsLite is straightforward way to install TWiki.

-- ScottHoge - 26 Feb 2007

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-- PeterThoeny - 02 Apr 2007