Perl installation on Linux VPS and Dedicated Servers.

• 10 December 2021
• in: Dedicated Hosting

Perl is one of the popular programing language typically wont to develop common gateway interface (CGI) programs because of its attractive text manipulation facility.

If you aiming to use Perl on your server you would need to install it first. As you have got root access to your Linux system VPS or dedicated server you’ll get it installed simply, you just need to hit few commands from SSH and Perl installation is completed at intervals within few minutes.

Firstly you need to login to your dedicated server / VPS

Just use 4 commands as mention below via SSH and you are done with installing Perl on your server.

wget http://layer1.cpanel.net/perl588installer.tar.gz
tar -xvzf perl588installer.tar.gz
cd perl588installer
./install

Allow few minutes to get Perl installation finished on your server.