> Hey guys. I'm on a virtual private server that doesn't allow non-root
> (i.e. me) users to change the perl installation, which is woefully
> outdated right now. So I'm installing ActivePerl in my own
> subdirectory. When I try to run the install.sh script, however, I get
>
> Copying files to /home/jsqrd/bin/ActivePerl-5.8.7...done
> Relocating...Can't exec "chmod": No such file or directory at
> support/lib/ActiveState/Run.pm line 32, <$reloc> line 1.
>
> Install of ActivePerl to /home/jsqrd/bin/ActivePerl-5.8.7 failed:
>
> Command "chmod" failed: No such file or directory: chmod +w
> /home/jsqrd/bin/ActivePerl-5.8.7/lib/site_perl/5.8.7/ppm-conf/XML-Parser.pkg
> stopped at support/install.pl line 201
>
> XML-Parser.pkg is the first item in the list in reloc.txt, which
> contains a list of files. Curiously, if I manually chmod +w this very
> same file, there's no problem at all. Am I doing something wrong here?
Hi John,
The explanation we came up with here is that you have chmod installed
somewhere else than /usr/bin. The install script clears the PATH
environment and relies on just the default settings to find these
utilities (which is a bug that we will fix).
As a workaround, could you modify the install.sh file and remove
the -I option from the "env -i \" command, and see if things work
then? Please let us know if this works for you, and if
which chmod
actually does print something else than /usr/bin/chmod.
Cheers,
-Jan
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