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Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days, Second Edition
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Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days, Second Edition

by Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn
May 2002
Beginner content levelBeginner
704 pages
16h 37m
English
Sams
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Extracting and Compiling Perl

When you've successfully downloaded the Perl source code, extract it from its archive. There are two steps required to extract the Perl archive; decompressing it using gzip, and expanding the archive using tar. To unzip the file, use the following command:

gzip -d latest.tar.gz

Then, untar the file using this command:

tar xvf latest.tar

As the tar program runs, a list of all the files being extracted from the archive will be printed on the screen. Don't worry about the output. A directory named perl5.6.1 or something similar will be created with all the Perl files inside.

Detailed installation instructions can be found in the README and INSTALL files; I'll summarize the process in the following sections.

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