Perl for N800?
 

There is one remarkable absense in the applications department for the N800.. no Perl? Anyone up-to-date on this? I feel quite handicapped when I can't run my Perl stuff on a device..

Re: Perl for N800?
 

Have you loaded xterm and looked yet?

Blew my mind when I saw it to night.

Re: Perl for N800?
 

I just opened an xterm and looked - No perl that I can find. Can you give us another hint?

Re: Perl for N800?
 

The first thing I tried - there's none.

Re: Perl for N800?
 

I type perl hit the tab key twice and it lists perl and perl5.8.3

To the best of my knowledge I didn't do anything to install it, it was just there

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y56.../n800_perl.png

Re: Perl for N800?
 

Could you please do the following in an xterm (as user, not root):

which perl
And then
dpkg -S <the output of the above, e.g. /usr/bin/perl if that was it>

Or just
dpkg -S `which perl`
(note backticks)
This will tell the name of the package it belongs to.

Re: Perl for N800?
 

I couldn't get the backticks to work, but perl -v gave
This is perl, v5.8.3 built for arm-linux-gnueabi-thread-multi

Re: Perl for N800?
 

Unfortunately that doesn't help, it doesn't tell which package perl is part of.
'which perl'
should tell where it is (e.g. /usr/bin/perl)
'dpkg -S' with that path (output of 'which perl' (no ticks))
will show which package it's part of.

Re: Perl for N800?
 

It's /usr/bin/perl, but not part of any installed package according to dpkg on my N800.

Re: Perl for N800?
 

Could someone post a download link to the perl binary please?