Where is Perldoc

[Alfred Vahau]

That's what I encountered which led me to issuing the aptitude search, 
apt-cache search and the Synaptic PM
to show me where the package is or what it's name is. Even the 
http://packages.ubuntu.com Warty site did not have relevant
information or so I thought as I did not see a perl-doc package there. I 
came close to installing perl again but it is already installed version 
5.8.4 in Warty.

apt-get install perl-doc is, I'm afraid, no good.

Alfred,


leon wrote:

>You need to install the perl-doc package to use this program.
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>Alfred Vahau <Alf.Vahau at upng.ac.pg> writes:
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> | 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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