Anyone know how I can install Perl onto a Mac OS X system from a Package.
Have a look at Pacifist: <http://www.charlessoft.com/>. From the web site:
"Pacifist 1.6 is a shareware application that opens Mac OS X .pkg package files and allows you to extract individual files and folders out of them. This is useful, for instance, if an application which is installed by the operating system becomes damaged and needs to be reinstalled without the hassle of reinstalling all of Mac OS X."
On my Panther CDs, Perl can be found in the "Essential System Software/Base Package" package. You'll want to install "/System/Library/Perl" and its contents, and "/usr/bin/perl".
If you want to ensure a clean install, before restoring the standard Perl, delete all the remnants of the broken Perl - it's probably in /System/Library/Perl and/or /Library/Perl, but could be elsewhere, depending on how you installed it.
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