Dear Monks, sorry for bothering you with such trivial question, but I am a total beginner in perl ! About my perl installation, I did not install it, I just installed linux redhat9.0 on the machine, and did not touch anything after that ... What would you advised me to do ?

First off I for one am not bothered by your questions so no need to apologize.

Something is inconsistant here however. If all you did was install Linux from a disto and not touch the Perl install then you should not be seeing the symptoms you describe.

As far as installing Perl goes, download the source, cd into the unpacked directory and then run ./Configure and for the most part accept the defaults. I would make it install in /usr/bin and friends and go from there.

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