Is it any longer possible to download full perl documentation,
that I can read while I'm off-line?

I can now read on-line e.g. https://perldoc.perl.org/perlvar .
I'm glad that the information is still available.

I used to be able to see essentially this page by typing,
at the bash prompt, something like 'man perlvar'.  I'd like to
be able to do this now, when I'm off-line, NOT by pulling
up a page from the internet, such as the above example.

Is this any longer possible?

Trying to figure out how to do this, I see messages such
as "You need to install the perl-doc package to use this program."

These fail to find or to install anything useful:
  apt install perl-doc
  apt install perldoc
  apt search perldoc
  apt search perl-doc
  aptitude install perl-doc
  aptitude install perldoc
  aptitude search perldoc
  aptitude search perl-doc
  cpan -i perl-doc
  cpan -i perldoc

If it's any longer possible to download full perl documentation
onto my computer's hard drive, I'd like to know what it is.

My thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Very truly yours,

jf02ir@gmail.com

In reply to Download full perl documentation? by Anonymous Monk

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