Perl
5.6.1
Perl has become
a language of choice for World Wide Web development, text processing,
Internet services, mail filtering, systems administration, and most every
other task requiring a portable and easily developed solution. Your Virtual
Server has the Perl5 interpreter already installed at the following location.
~/usr/local/bin/perl
If you require the use of the Perl5 Standard Libraries or other Perl5 modules, you will need to install these into
a local directory on your VPS.
Installing the Perl5 Standard Libraries
Connect to your Virtual Server via Telnet
or SSH and run the following commands that match your Virtual
Server O/S.
FreeBSD & Solaris
% vinstall perl5
NOTE: The Perl5 Standard Libraries for FreeBSD and Solaris
do not count toward your disk space quota.
NOTE: Perl 5.00503 is still available for those who have
scripts that may not be compatible with the newer version. To install the older version of Perl, run the
following command from a Telnet or SSH prompt on your Virtual Private Server.
% vinstall perl5.00503
Removing the Perl5 Standard Libraries
If you would like to remove the Perl5 Standard Libraries you may do so
by running the following commands that match your Virtual Server O/S.
FreeBSD & Solaris
% vrmperl
Perl5 Modules
Perl5 Modules can greatly extend the functionality of your
Virtual Private Server Perl programming language interpreter. By using prepared modules written by others,
instead of using your own code, you can save yourself both time and effort. Many popular Perl5 modules can be
easily installed on your VPS.
perldoc - Perl Documentation Viewer
Do the following to install the perldoc utility, which you can use to view Perl5 documentation, on your
Virtual Private Server.
FreeBSD & Solaris
% vinstall perldoc
This command links in a variety of required terminal macro definitions
as well as a bunch of groff/troff/nroff files required for proper
man page formatting.
Once installed, you may run the following command to access documentation for your favorite Perl5 module. Substitute
your favorite Perl5 module name for Module::Favorite below.
% virtual perldoc Module::Favorite
More Information
There is a wealth of available Perl information and documentation online.
Perldoc.Perl.org
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