You need 2 scripts, e.g. pdf_index.cgi and pdf_display.cgi. The index page creates the links to the other cgi with an id parameter (assuming it is unique) to determine the pdf. This example puts the links in a table with the other fields.

#!perl
use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use DBI;

my $dbh = get_dbh();

# html page
print header,start_html;
my $sql = 'SELECT id,name,description,vers FROM software_repos';
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
$sth->execute();
print q!<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">
<tr>
  <td>ID</td>
  <td>Name</td>
  <td>Description</td>
  <td>Version</td>
  <td>PDF</td>
 </tr>!;
 
while (my @f = $sth->fetchrow_array()){
  print qq!<tr>
  <td>$f[0]</td>
  <td>$f[1]</td>
  <td>$f[2]</td>
  <td>$f[3]</td>
  <td><a href="pdf_display.cgi?id=$f[0]" target="_blank">pdf</a></td>
</tr>\n!; 
}
print q!</table>!;
print end_html;

# whatever you need to get a connection
sub get_dbh{
  my $database = ""; my $user = ""; my $pw = "";
  my $dsn = "dbi:mysql:$database:localhost:3306"; 
  my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $user, $pw, { RaiseError => 1, AutoComm
+it => 1 } );
  return $dbh;
}
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The other script to display the pdf is relatively simple

#!perl
use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use DBI;

my $id = param('id');
my $dbh = get_dbh();
my $sql = "SELECT bin FROM software_repos WHERE id=?";
my ($pdf) = $dbh->selectrow_array($sql,undef,$id);

print header('application/pdf'),
binmode(STDOUT);
print $pdf;

# whatever you need to get a connection
sub get_dbh{}
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