# Urgent PERL question **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 19, 2001, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urgent-perl-question/88385 "2001-10-19T07:27:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Heaving\_Mass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Heaving\_Mass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heaving_Mass)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urgent-perl-question/88385/1 "2001-10-19T07:27:36Z")
Does anyone know how to resolve the error message that is occurring when I try to run my perl interpreter? “Cannot locate config.pm in @INC (@INC contains : .) Begin failed----Configuration aborted” ---
**Author:** ![Heaving\_Mass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Heaving\_Mass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heaving_Mass)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urgent-perl-question/88385/2 "2001-10-19T08:04:12Z")
c’mon, there must be some perl hack out there willing to show me how easy this is? ---
**Author:** ![Baraqiyal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@Baraqiyal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baraqiyal)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urgent-perl-question/88385/3 "2001-10-19T09:17:22Z")
It sounds like Perl isn’t installed properly. The proper sequence is something like this: makefile.pl make make test make install BTW, is this Unix/Linux or Win32? ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urgent-perl-question/88385/4 "2001-10-19T09:48:31Z")
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