Hi, I'm new in perl programming and linux OS. What is the difference between perl and perl-devel? What does mean devel? Iwant to install Catalyst and before install as required I have to check if make, gcc and perl-devel are installed in my system. make and gcc are installed. But I have to install perl-devel. First I searched for make, gcc and perl-devel in YAST Software Management and search did not find perl-devel. I visited the software.opensuse.org and wrote "perl-devel" and searched. The result was many similar zips with a prefix perl-devel and I can not choose one for needed perl-devel. Please, help me to make a choise which one is true for "perl-devel"...

List of search results:

perl-Devel-Symdump

perl-Devel-CoreStack

perl-Devel-StackTrace

perl-Devel-Caller

perl-Devel-GlobalDestruction

perl-Devel-Leak

perl-Devel-LexAlias

perl-Devel-Trace

perl-Devel-REPL

perl-Devel-Size

perl-Devel-PPPort

perl-Devel-Cycle

apache2-mod_perl-devel

I'm using openSUSE 11.1; Perl 5.10.1; Apache2

In reply to What is the difference between perl and perl-devel? by programmerPerl

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