Rene Salmon schrieb:
Because it is an x86_64 box and the perl rpm is an x86_64 rpm the software I am trying to install is looking for
/usr/lib64/perl5
and not
/usr/lib/perl5
which is where the x86_64 perl rpm is actually installed.
This package is obviously neither a SUSE package nor built for SUSE.
What would I break if I just did something like this?
ln -s /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/lib64/
Not much, probably. But it's ugly. If the package makes this wrong assumption about the filesystem layout, it might make more of them.
Why is the x86_64 perl rpm installed in /usr/lib and not /usr/lib64?
Because that's where perl belongs. perl has its own multiarch directory hierarchy below /usr/lib/perl5, so there is simply no need to install it into /usr/lib64 instead of /usr/lib. Using /usr/lib64 instead of /usr/lib for perl would even be counter-productive because it would make all perl modules architecture dependent. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org