Where is Perldoc

[leon]

You need to install the perl-doc package to use this program.

Alfred Vahau <Alf.Vahau at upng.ac.pg> writes:

 | Hi,
 | Does Perl installation in Ubuntu come with online Perl documentation
 | which I expected to be the case?
 | I needed to look up the syntax of the split command and when I issued
 | 
 | perldoc -f split
 | 
 | I received an error message telling me that I have must have perl-doc
 | package installed before I can use
 | the command. After the aptitude and the apt-cache searches and the
 | Synaptic PM returning negative
 | results, I decided to install it manually from CPAN with its dependent
 | modules. Now the command is in the /usr/bin/perldoc path
 | but it is not a symlink. There is no entry in /etc/alternatives either.
 | 
 | perldoc is really part of Perl and I am surprised that it didn't come
 | in the first place with Perl. But then I am learning new things about
 | Debian and Ubuntu and I may be surprised. Thanks for any hints on what
 | I need to do to get the online documentation on Perl.
 | 
 | Alfred,
 | 
 | 
 | 
 | 
 | 
 | 

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