Well, something definitely went drastically wrong for on my first tentative perl steps. So as I felt I made a complete mess of my system ( I couldn't even get perl helloworld.pl to work), i decided to start again.

First I did 
rpm -e --nodeps perl
rpm -e --nodps mod_perl
rpm -e --apache

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which i now realise was a mistake because my xchat client has failed :( So then I dloaded stable.tar.gz for perl-5.8.0 and unpacked in my home dir and then went to read the install doc It says, as you're all probably aware

The basic steps to build and install perl5 on a Unix system
with all the defaults are:

    rm -f config.sh Policy.sh
    sh Configure -de
    make
    make test
    make install

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 however there are no config.sh or Policy.sh files in the unpacked archive, only config_h.SH and policy_h.SH, does it mean these?

and what are the -de flags for on configure

Title edit by tye

In reply to Starting again installing Perl by irvken

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