From: Brendan O'Dea Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:22:25 +1100 Subject: Replace generic man(1) instructions with Debian-specific information. Indicate that the user needs to install the perl-doc package. --- pod/perl.pod | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/pod/perl.pod b/pod/perl.pod index 3f3fbe4..403e1aa 100644 --- a/pod/perl.pod +++ b/pod/perl.pod @@ -299,8 +299,16 @@ aux h2ph h2xs perlbug pl2pm pod2html pod2man splain xsubpp =for buildtoc __END__ -On a Unix-like system, these documentation files will usually also be -available as manpages for use with the F program. +On Debian systems, you need to install the B package which +contains the majority of the standard Perl documentation and the +F program. + +Extensive additional documentation for Perl modules is available, both +those distributed with Perl and third-party modules which are packaged +or locally installed. + +You should be able to view Perl's documentation with your man(1) +program or perldoc(1). Some documentation is not available as man pages, so if a cross-reference is not found by man, try it with L. Perldoc can