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I get a link error /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lperl during the make step of the installation on Debian. Whats wrong?

April 26, 2017Debian Error installation link step wrong

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I get a link error /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lperl during the make step of the installation on Debian. Whats wrong?

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This is a common problem when building compiled libraries on Debian distribution installations with the default perl package. To fix this problem, create a symbolic link from libperl.so.5.6.1 to libperl.so in /usr/lib (cd /usr/lib; ln -s libperl.so.5.6.1 libperl.so) and re-run the ‘make’ step of the installation.