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Perl5
Your Virtual Server includes both the Perl4 (#!/usr/bin/perl) and Perl5 (#!/usr/local/bin/perl) binaries. If you require the use of Perl5 modules, you will need to install these into a local directory on your Virtual Server.

Installing Perl5
To install the standard Perl5 libraries, then you need simply to Telnet or SSH to your Virtual Server and do the following: 

% cd    (this will put you in your home directory)
% tar -xvf /usr/local/contrib/perl5.tar

The Perl5 libraries will take approximately 11 MB of your disk space.

If your Virtual Server was setup prior to October 1, 1998, then you can install the Perl5 executable by following the steps outlined above. This will install both the Perl5 executable and the standard Perl5 libraries. If you would like to remove the Perl5 libraries to free up disk space, you may do so by typing the following command:

% rm -rf ~/usr/local/lib/perl5/

Installing your own Perl5 modules
If you find that you require a module that is not included on the system or in the perl5 distribution you installed locally on your Virtual Server (by following the steps above), you can install the required perl module yourself into your local directory.

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