Perl in FC14-KDE, but why missing in FC14-GNOME?

Fri Feb 25 04:00:24 UTC 2011

On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 19:22 -0800, Suresh Govindachar wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>   I tried both Fedore-14-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso and
>   Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso.  I thought perl 5.12 was 
>   in every FC14, but it turned out that while FC14-KDE has 
>   perl (5.12), "which perl" returned nothing in the 
>   default FC14.  How come?

The Live distros have only a limited set of software. Presumably Perl is
on the KDE version because it's needed for something, and it's not
needed on the Gnome one. Just run "yum install perl".

[Also, it's not FC14 but F14. The Fedora distros haven't been "FC" for
several years now (though the packages still have fc in their names for
backwards compatibility reasons).]

poc