Hi I recently purchased an oreilly book (learning perl) and would like to really dig in. I do see that perl base is on the n900 by default. I also see via apt-cache search perl (see output below) lots of other perl related stuff. So can I just bulk install these things or will a brute force perl attack on my n900 break apps. Basically I want to have perl as though I had installed it on say a fedora or ubuntu workstation, so I can learn as much as I can. So what should I be installing? help a guy trying to learn programming

Nokia-N900:~# dpkg -l | grep -i perl
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.01-17osso2 Using libc functions for internationalization in Perl
ii libpcre3 6.7-1osso1+r1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Library - runtime files
ii perl-base 5.8.3-3osso13+0m5 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister.


Nokia-N900:~# apt-cache search perl |grep -i perl
perl-base - The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister.
libpcre3 - Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Library - runtime files
libpcrecpp0 - Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Library - C++ runtime files
perl - Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language.
libperl5.8 - Shared Perl library.
perl-modules - Core Perl modules.
liblocale-gettext-perl - Using libc functions for internationalization in Perl
advancedcaching - AGTL, the all-in-one solution for on- and offline geocaching, makes geocaching paperless!
libalien-wxwidgets-perl - Perl module for locating wxWidgets binaries
libnet-ssleay-perl - Perl module for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
libnet-libidn-perl - Perl bindings for GNU Libidn
libwx-perl - interface to wxWidgets cross-platform GUI toolkit
libgv-perl - Perl bindings for graphviz
libhtml-parser-perl - A collection of modules that parse HTML text documents
libcompress-raw-zlib-perl - low-level interface to zlib compression library
libcompress-zlib-perl - Perl module for creation and manipulation of gzip files
libfilter-perl - Perl source filters
libsdl-perl - SDL bindings for the Perl language
libdigest-sha1-perl - NIST SHA-1 message digest algorithm
eperl - Embedded Perl 5 Language
libtest-pod-perl - Test::Pod - check for POD errors in files
libtest-differences-perl - Test string and data structure differences in perl
libtest-base-perl - A data driven testing framework for Perl
libtap-parser-perl - transitional dummy package
libtest-harness-perl - Run Perl standard test scripts with statistics
libtest-simple-perl - Basic utilities for writing tests in Perl
libtree-dagnode-perl - Tree:AG_Node - (super)class for representing nodes in a tree
libtest-pod-coverage-perl - Check for pod coverage in your distribution
libtext-diff-perl - Perform diffs on files and record sets in perl
libarray-compare-perl - Array::Compare - easily compare arrays
libarchive-zip-perl - Module for manipulation of ZIP archives
libalgorithm-diff-perl - a perl library for finding Longest Common Sequences in text
libmodule-pluggable-perl - Automatically provide your module the ability to accept plugins
libmodule-depends-perl - identify the dependencies of a distribution
libwww-mechanize-perl - Automate interaction with websites
libwww-perl - WWW client/server library for Perl (aka LWP)
libhtml-tagset-perl - Data tables pertaining to HTML
libhtml-tree-perl - represent and create HTML syntax trees
libspiffy-perl - Spiffy Perl Interface Framework For You
libcommon-sense-perl - module that implements some sane defaults for Perl programs
libclass-accessor-perl - Automated accessor generator
libclass-accessor-chained-perl - make chained accessors
libfile-chdir-perl - A more sensible way to change directories
libfont-ttf-perl - Perl module for TrueType font hacking
libfile-which-perl - Perl module for searching paths for executable programs
libdevel-symdump-perl - Perl module for inspecting perl's symbol table
libio-socket-ssl-perl - Perl module implementing object oriented interface to SSL sockets
libio-compress-base-perl - Base Class for IO::Compress modules
libio-compress-zlib-perl - Perl interface to zlib
libparent-perl - establish an ISA relationship with base classes at compile time
libpod-simple-perl - Perl framework for parsing files in Pod markup language
libpod-escapes-perl - CPAN's Pod::Escapes -- for resolving Pod E<...> sequences
libpod-coverage-perl - Checks perl module documentation for comprehensiveness
libpar-dist-perl - perl module to create and manipulate PAR distributions
libemail-date-format-perl - Module to generate RFC-2822-valid date strings
libextutils-parsexs-perl - Perl utility to process Perl XS code into C code
libextutils-cbuilder-perl - Compile and link C code for Perl modules
libextutils-xspp-perl - helper module to use Perl XS with C++ code
liberror-perl - Perl module for error/exception handling in an OO-ish way
liburi-perl - Manipulates and accesses URI strings
libxml-regexp-perl - Perl module for regular expressions for XML tokens
libxml-perl - Perl modules for working with XML
libxml-dom-perl - Perl module for building DOM Level 1 compliant doc structures
libio-stringy-perl - Perl modules for IO from scalars and arrays
dh-make-perl - Create Debian packages from perl modules
libappconfig-perl - Perl module for configuration file and command line handling
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