[PLUG] perldoc question

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

On my Mandrake box, I can say

$ perldoc -f stat
       stat FILEHANDLE

       stat EXPR

       stat    Returns a 13-element list giving the status info
               for a file, either the file opened via FILEHANDLE,
               or named by EXPR.  If EXPR is omitted, it stats
               `$_'.  Returns a null list if the stat fails.
               Typically used as follows:
       ...

Good.

Not so on my debian box at home. (It says perlfunc not available.)

It's not clear what to apt-get to make this work properly. Any
suggestions?


I'm not sure, but this might be related to the following sillyness: I
tried saying "apt-get install perl" thinking maybe I didn't have
everything I needed. I was told that this would cause perl5.004 and a
couple others to be deinstalled, which would mean some 50 things would
be removed, so that perl *and perl5.004 and those same things that
were removed* could be installed.

Any idea why apt-get would consider such a thing?

-- 
 Jeff

 Jeff Abrahamson  <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>



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