Thanks. Got it. I will fix the software to look for perl in the right place.

Rene




Andreas Hanke wrote:
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.
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