getting perl-novice

[cjh83]

I'm sure this is an entirely trivial question, but I can't see to find on the net, or in any stickys on this forum, a simple path to downloading perl for openSuse 11.1. Could someone tell me where to get it/how to install, if it's not really simple.

I'm a bit new to linux in general.

Thanks

[ab@novell.com]

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Unless I'm mistaken it comes with it. Just run 'perl' from the command
line, or write a script and call it with something like:

perl /path/to/yourscript.pl

Good luck.





cjh83 wrote:
> I'm sure this is an entirely trivial question, but I can't see to find
> on the net, or in any stickys on this forum, a simple path to
> downloading perl for openSuse 11.1. Could someone tell me where to get
> it/how to install, if it's not really simple.
>
> I'm a bit new to linux in general.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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[ken_yap]

You don't need to download it, it's probably already installed by default, as so many of the OS utilities depend on it. Try this at the command line:

perl -e 'print "Hello Perl newbie\n"'

[ken_yap]

Originally Posted by cjh83

a simple path to downloading perl

BTW, this is one of the pleasant surprises of not using Windows, a lot of stuff is already in the Linux distro. You don't have to download stuff left and right to supplement what is actually a pretty bare OS and a ripoff at the price.

Hope you have more pleasant surprises. Have a lot of fun.

[cjh83]

thanks guys. i see now...though if anyone knows how i can find where suse is hiding perl itself that'd be handy. its not in usr/bin/perl, or usr/local/bin/perl, so i cant but the #! line into my scripts..

[cjh83]

k, done it.

thanks a lot people, Im good now!