Perl

Perl is a high-level interpreted programming language. Perl is often used to write programs and automate tasks on Unix-like systems. It is still a wide-spread website scripting language, too.

Installation

Ubuntu

10.04 Lucid and above

Simply install the following package(s):

There are some additional packages, providing special functionality:

There are even more extensions and packages. To list them, open a terminal and run:

apt-cache search ^perl-
Apache integration

To enable your Apache HTTP Server to execute Perl scripts, see mod_perl.

Debian

5.0 Lenny and above

See the Ubuntu instructions, it is exactly the same on Debian.

Modules

See also

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