On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 16:22:34 -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote: >On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 07:08:03PM -0500, Matthew O. Persico wrote: >>But can someone please explain to me how Perl got installed in >>Mandrake 9.0 without perldoc? Or did I miss and RPM in the >>installation somehow? > >I'm not a Mandrake user, but if its anything like Debian they've >likely moved perldoc and all the docs into a seperate package >probably called perl-doc. This shaves about 10 megs off a pre- >compiled distribution of perl. > >Under Debian, perl-doc is a suggested installation when perl is >installed (sort of like an optional dependency). I don't think RPM >has a similar concept so I can see how a user might miss it.
[root@moplx bin]# which perldoc which: no perldoc in (/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin) [root@moplx bin]# urpmi perl-doc installing /mnt/mdk-9.0/cd3/Mandrake/RPMS3/perl-doc-5.8.0-13mdk.i586.rpm Preparing... ################################################## 1:perl-doc ################################################## [root@moplx bin]# which perldoc /usr/bin/perldoc Thank you Michael -- Matthew O. Persico
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