Installing Perl-5.6.1

Installation of Perl

Install Perl by running the following commands:

./Configure -Dprefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install

If you don't want to answer all those questions Perl asks, you can add the -d option to the configure script and Perl will use all the default settings. To avoid the Configure script asking questions after the config.sh file has been created you can pass the -e parameter to perl as well. The commands with these parameters included will be:

./Configure -Dprefix=/usr -d -e &&
make &&
make install

Contents

The Perl package contains Perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language

Description

Perl combines the features and capabilities of C, awk, sed and sh into one powerful programming language.

Dependencies

Perl-5.6.1 needs the following to be installed:

sh from the bash package

ar from the binutils package
as from the binutils package
ld from the binutils package
nm from the binutils package

bison from the bison package

cmp from the diffutils package

chmod from the fileutils package
cp from the fileutils package
ln from the fileutils package
ls from the fileutils package
mkdir from the fileutils package
mv from the fileutils package
rm from the fileutils package
touch from the fileutils package

gcc from the gcc package

egrep from the grep package
grep from the grep package

nroff from the groff package

gzip from the gzip package

less from the less package

make from the make package

awk from the mawk package

sed from the sed package

basename from the sh-utils package
date from the sh-utils package
echo from the sh-utils package
expr from the sh-utils package
sleep from the sh-utils package
tee from the sh-utils package
test from the sh-utils package
true from the sh-utils package
uname from the sh-utils package

cat from the textutils package
comm from the textutils package
sort from the textutils package
split from the textutils package
tr from the textutils package
uniq from the textutils package
wc from the textutils package