<li><a class="doc" href="#What_is_Perl_">What is Perl?</a></li>
<li><a class="doc" href="#Where_can_I_get_tons_of_informat">Where can I get tons of
information about Perl?</a></li>
<li><a class="doc" href="#Where_is_the_Perl_for_Win32_inte">Where can I get the
ActivePerl interpreter?</a></li>
<li><a class="doc" href="#What_do_I_get_with_ActiveState_s">What do I get with
ActivePerl?</a></li>
<li><a class="doc" href="#How_do_I_install_ActivePerl_for_Linux">How do I install
ActivePerl for Linux?</a></li>
<li><a class="doc" href="#How_do_I_install_the_Perl_for_Solaris">How do I install
ActivePerl for Solaris?</a></li>
<li><a class="doc" href="#How_do_I_install_the_Perl_for_Windows">How do I install
ActivePerl for Windows?</a></li>
<li><a class="doc" href="#Can_I_build_perl_from_the_source">Can I build Perl from the
source code?</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="doc" href="#AUTHOR_AND_COPYRIGHT">AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT</a></li>
</ul>
<h2><a name="NAME">NAME</a></h2>
<p>ActivePerl-faq1 - Availability and Installation</p>
<h2><a name="DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></h2>
<p>Getting, installing, and using Perl.</p>
<h2><a name="What_is_Perl_">What is Perl?</a></h2>
<p>Perl is a scripting language widely used for system administration and
programming on the World Wide Web. It originated in the UNIX community and has a
strong UNIX slant, but usage on Windows has grown rapidly. ActivePerl is a quality-assured binary distribution of Perl for popular UNIX platforms and Windows.</p>
<p>perl (small 'p') is the program used to interpret the Perl language.</p>
<h2><a name="Where_can_I_get_tons_of_informat">Where can I get tons of
information about Perl?</a></h2>
<p>Extensive online documentation is included with Perl itself. You can read the
documentation with the <code>perldoc</code> command, as in <code>perldoc
document_name</code>. You should start with the <code>perl</code> document and the <code>perlfaq</code>
document. For information on other ways of accessing the Perl documentation
(including HTML versions of this documentation), see <a class="doc" href="ActivePerl-faq3.html#Where_can_I_get_documentation_on">Where
can I get documentation on ActivePerl?</a>.</p>
<p>To get more information about Perl, check out these URLs:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><a class="doc" href="http://www.ActiveState.com">http://www.ActiveState.com</a> - The ActiveState Home Page.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a class="doc" href="http://www.perl.com">http://www.perl.com</a> - The Perl home