PERL on RH9

[Rick Stevens]

Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 11:40:47AM -0700, Vaibhav Deshpande wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>How would I check if my RH9 has PERL installed on it?
> 
> 
> rpm -q perl

Or simply "perl -v".  If you get something like "This is perl, v5.8.3",
you've got it.

>>If it is not, how shall I install it?
> 
> 
> Insert your distribution disk 1 into the CD drive, and as root,
> 
>   mount /dev/cdrom
>   rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/Re*/R*/Perl-5*
> 
> or look through your menus for something about installing packages.

"RedHat Icon->System Settings->Add/Remove Applications" or, as root,
"redhat-config-packages"

> See
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/getting-started-guide/s1-updating-pkgs-cdrom.html
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