Installing Perl on Linux

Almost all Linux distributions come with Perl. If it’s not already installed, you can use your package manager or whatever installation program your system comes with to install Perl and all its related packages.

Because each distribution is different, a complete discussion of package installation is beyond the scope of this book.

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