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
| 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 |