6.19. Installing Perl-5.6.1

Estimated build time:           6 minutes
Estimated required disk space:  35 MB

6.19.1. Installation of Perl

Install Perl by running the following commands:

./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install

If you want more control over the way perl sets itself up to be build, you can run the interactive Configure script and modify the way perl is built. If you think you can live with the (sensible) defaults perl auto-detects, then just use the commands listed above.

6.19.2. Contents of perl-5.6.1

6.19.2.2. Descriptions

6.19.3. Dependencies

Perl-5.6.1 needs the following to be installed:


bash: sh
binutils: ar, as, ld, nm
diffutils: cmp
fileutils: chmod, cp, ln, ls, mkdir, mv, rm, touch
gcc: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
grep: egrep, grep
make: make
gawk: awk
sed: sed
sh-utils: basename, date, echo, expr, hostname, pwd, uname, whoami
textutils: cat, comm, sort, split, tr, uniq, wc