Perl

Perl is a dynamic programming language created by Larry Wall. It practically comes with every version of Linux.

Install Perl 5 on Odroid.

When I say "practically", I mean that quite literally on Odroid. While it does come with the operating system, it does not come with Wheezy apparently.

Odroid's Debian Wheezy does come with perl, but not perl5. We're going to do something I've been eager to do: Install Perl from source for Linux!

I know what you are thinking "There's already perl installed. It's installed by default." True, but check the version, and find out where is perl or even perl5

cd ~/Software
curl -SL http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.20.1.tar.gz | tar xzv
cd perl-5.20.1
./Configure -des -Dprefix=/usr/local
make && make test && sudo make install
cd ..

This will run as perl. Check the version using perl -v to be sure.

TODO: Show a program example and how to execute it.

See Also

• GCC - gcc and g++
• Java
• Python
• Ruby
• Node
• Haskell
• OCAML
• Sed
• Awk
• Bash