{"id":24389,"date":"2024-02-15T14:53:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T22:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/docs.extraview.com\/v25\/book\/install-perl-command-line-interface-3\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T17:46:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T01:46:56","slug":"install-perl-command-line-interface-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/docs.extraview.com\/v25\/extraview-25\/installation-upgrade-guide-1\/software-installation-upgrades-1\/linux-environment-1\/install-perl-command-line-interface-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Perl &#038; Command Line Interface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ExtraView Command Line Interface is an optional component that requires the Perl interpreter to be installed first. Check the <a href=\"v25\/server-requirements\/\">software requirements page<\/a> for the recommended version of Perl for your computer system.<\/p>\n<h3>Perl Installation for Linux<\/h3>\n<p>Download the appropriate version of Perl for your computer system from <a href=\"\/\/www.perl.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.perl.org<\/a> and perform the following steps to install Perl from source:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Extract the files from the perl-NNN.tar.gz download file into a temporary directory<\/li>\n<li>Read the <span class=\"fixedWidthFont\">INSTALL<\/span> file to learn how to install Perl<\/li>\n<li>Execute the following commands to install Perl in the <span class=\"fixedWidthFont\">\/usr\/local\/extraview\/perl<\/span> directory (or any other location available) and install the additional Perl modules required by the CLI:\n<pre><code>cd perl-NNN\nsh Configure -Dprefix=\/usr\/local\/extraview\/perl -des\nmake\nmake test\nmake install\ncd \/usr\/local\/extraview\/perl\/bin\n.\/cpan Term::ReadKey\n.\/cpan HTTP::Request::Common\n.\/cpan LWP::UserAgent\n.\/cpan XML::Parser\n.\/cpan Mail::Sendmail\n.\/cpan Mail::POP3Client\n.\/cpan Mail::Sender\n.\/cpan MIME::Parser\n.\/cpan HTML::FormatText<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>Cleanup and remove the temporary directory containing the extracted files<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>CLI Installation for Linux<\/h3>\n<p>Download the CLI from the ExtraView Support site download page. 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