Re: Perl

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On  4 Nov, Tim Bedding wrote about "Perl"
> Is Perl 5 part of the standard Debian 2.1 installation?
> 

Yes and no.  There is a stripped down perl that is called perl-base that
is part of the base packages that are installed with the initial install
on the base disks.  If you want full use of perl you need to install the
package 'perl' which contains the rest of the perl distribution.  

Brian Servis
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