having recently taken that step myself, some up-to-date tips: - with debian, perl is all installed automatically and works out-of-the-box; - even if you're new to the unix world you can soon get the hang of file permissions, but the fun really starts with mysql: that caused me a lot of frustration - you have to change the file ownership (if they're pulled over from windows) to "mysql" as well; - tried kdevelop as DE for perl and got into a hopeless tangle: it's using a steamroller to crack a nut; - what I like a lot as my perl DE is SciTe (there's a deb package); there's just a problem under kde with the window frame font sizes (because it's gtk). The solution you'll find on the net of installing gtk2-engines-gtk-qt didn't work (at least the debian package). Scite wouldn't launch afterwards, and I had to deinstall gtk2-engines and delete a couple of *rc config files before it would run again. ..apart from that, all is sweetness and light (...well, most of the time) good luck.

In reply to Re^2: Welcome 2 the JEDIes world! by Anonymous Monk
in thread Need help to change from windows perl to linux perl by muthuvel_perl

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