Program installs but won't run

[pHROZEN-gHOST]

I have been running windows since v3. I decided to move over to Linux. So please be kind to this noobie.

I am running Linux Mint 21.3. As I have done with other software, I installed the program from the software manager. When the install completes, there is a "launch" button. It will not run. Am I missing something?

I REALLY want to have this program working.

[Master2386]

Same issue for me. Here some more Details: "/opt/homebrew/bin/wakeonlan: bad interpreter: /usr/bin/perl5.30: no such file or directory" The Version installed from Homebrew expects perl 5.30. But macOS 15 (Sequoia) has perl 5.34.

[4648100]

Same issue for me. Here some more Details: "/opt/homebrew/bin/wakeonlan: bad interpreter: /usr/bin/perl5.30: no such file or directory" The Version installed from Homebrew expects perl 5.30. But macOS 15 (Sequoia) has perl 5.34.

Using the homebrew version on a Mac computer I had the same issue after upgrading to macOS 15. Changing the first line in the wakeonlan executable will make it work again:

From #!/usr/bin/perl5.30 -w to #!/usr/bin/perl -w

See also: https://github.com/jpoliv/wakeonlan/blob/master/wakeonlan

[101Dude]

@4648100

I made that change and still when I run wakeonlan -n -i 255.255.255.255 I get the help page. Am I doing something incorrectly?

EDIT

Yes I was. I followed the man page but I didn't see [hardware_address] at the end. ugghhh

[jpoliv]

Closing this ticket as this is a packaging issue that is outside the scope of this project. This kind of issue, that is triggered by the versioning of the perl interpreter on the shebang line, is a consequence of the packaging guidelines of the platform in question (in this case linux mint and homebrew), and as so, it needs to be reported to against the packaging system in question (against the linux mint wakeonlan package or against the homebrew's wakeonlan formulae).

Notes:

• this issue usually happens when there is a major upgrade of default version of the perl interpreter on the platform in question and the wakeonlan package is not rebuilt to match the newly introduced version of perl
• a new usage section was added to the main README file with some examples
• the following code change has been merged so that the full POD page is displayed when the --help option is used
• you can always install and use the raw perl script (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jpoliv/wakeonlan/refs/heads/master/wakeonlan)