How to Install perl software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

How to Install perl software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

perl software package provides Larry Walls Practical Extraction and Report Language, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install perl 

perl is installed in your system.

Make ensure the perl package were installed using the commands given below,

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep perl *

You will get with perl package name, version, architecture and description in a table

perl package basic information:

Distro Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr
Section Perl
Package perl
Version 5.18.2-2ubuntu1.1 [amd64, i386
Description Larry Walls Practical Extraction and Report Language
Sub Section Perl


See Also, How to uninstall or remove perl software package from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)?