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Telemachus wrote: > On Thu Aug 27 2009 @ 4:55, Shawn H. Corey wrote: >> Nowadays, Linux comes with Perl but not its documentation. To >> download it, start your favourite package manager and download the >> package "perl-doc" Also, since some of it refers to the Syscalls, >> you may want its documentation. Its package is "manpages-dev" > > I'm curious what you mean by "nowadays" here. In my experience, it's only > Debian (and Debian descendants) that ships without documentation for Perl. > > I guess I'm wondering if (1) lots of other distros do this too or (2) > Ubuntu does it (as a Debian child), and in your mind Ubuntu _is_ Linux > nowadays. > > Just curious, T > For a lot of people, Ubuntu is Linux. Of course, each distro decides what package to include in their "LiveCD" and what you may need to download later. If you already have these packages, you would waste about five minutes just to determine that. If you don't have them, there are their names so you can get them. To tell you the truth, I have no idea what distros have what documentation. And since there's well over a hundred of them, I'm not going to send the time to find out. :) -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn Programming is as much about organization and communication as it is about coding. I like Perl; it's the only language where you can bless your thingy.Thread Previous | Thread Next