can anyone explain in morose terms how to use/install a file named perl -5.10.1.tar.gz.I have it in my My documents file and wish to play around with perl.

It's a compressed achive, that first has to be extracted. Open a terminal windows. Login as SuperUser (su). Therefore type in: su - Then enter the password for the user root. Change directory to the folder, where perl -5.10.1.tar.gz is stored. Type in: tar xfvz perl -5.10.1.tar.gz Change into the perl folder, where the files has been extracted to. Then type in: sh Configure Answer all the questions. When finished, type make make test make install That's it.

I think paulsep means. tar -(options) He didn't type the - sign. Playing to the angels Les Paul (1915-2009)