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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>2000-03-19 09:20:22 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>2000-03-19 09:20:22 +0000
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mention how to look up perllocal.pod (from Michael G Schwern)
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@@ -91,6 +91,11 @@ While still in that directory, type:
Make sure you have appropriate permissions to install the module
in your Perl 5 library directory. Often, you'll need to be root.
+Perl maintains a record of all module installations. To look at
+this list, simply type:
+
+ perldoc perllocal
+
That's all you need to do on Unix systems with dynamic linking.
Most Unix systems have dynamic linking--if yours doesn't, or if for
another reason you have a statically-linked perl, I<and> the