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Can't install perl 5.14.2 with perlbrew

I am on a virtual machine with Debian (6.0.7-i386) and i want to learn Perl (with Beginning Perl written by Curtis Poe).

I have trouble with perlbrew.

  1. I installed perlbrew with

    wget --no-check-certificate -O - http://install.perlbrew.pl | bash

  2. I add the following command to ~/.bashrc:

    source ~/perl5/perlbrew/etc/bashrc

  3. After that, I logged out and logged back, and then I ran the following command:

    perlbrew install perl-5.14.2

I got

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Please help me

English translation of the output:

tar (child): bzip2: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
/bin/tar: Child returned status 2
/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Solution

  • It's failing because the bzip2 command line utility isn't installed (can't be found in the PATH).