[Slapt-get-user] YAML was the first I tried to compile.

[David Unric]

It looks for tar in /bin not /usr/bin. Try to create symbolic link to
/usr/bin/tar in /bin directory.

Regards

David

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Xavian-Anderson Macpherson <
Shingoshi at comcast.net> wrote:

>  sh-3.2# cpan2tgz YAML
> CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.18)
> Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata
>   Database was generated on Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:26:52 GMT
> CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v5.814)
> CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9715)
>
--- snip ---

> Checksum for /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/I/IN/INGY/YAML-0.68.tar.gz ok
> sh: /bin/tar: No such file or directory
> Uncompressed /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/I/IN/INGY/YAML-0.68.tar.gz
> successfully
> Using Tar:/bin/tar xvf "YAML-0.68.tar":
> sh: /bin/tar: No such file or directory
> Couldn't untar YAML-0.68.tar
>
--- snip ---

>
> sh-3.2# which tar
> /usr/bin/tar
> sh-3.2#
>
--- snip ---

>
> Question, why doesn't cpan2tgz find tar?
>
> Xavian-Anderson Macpherson
> Shingoshi
>
>
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