BSD Ports

lang/perl5.42 5.42.3 DragonFly

Practical Extraction and Report Language

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
ART10, GPLv1+
Categories
devel, lang, perl5
Package size
15932.8 KiB, 62945.4 KiB installed

Description

Perl is a language that combines some of the features of C, sed, awk and shell. See the manual page for more hype. There are also many books published by O'Reilly & Assoc. See pod/perlbook.pod for more information.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 5.42.3, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
DragonFlylang/perl5.425.42.3 newestnone known-[email protected]-
FreeBSDlang/perl5.425.42.3 newestnone known-[email protected]2026-09-28
MidnightBSDlang/perl5.425.42.3 newestno data-[email protected]2026-11-04
HardenedBSDlang/perl5.425.42.3 newestno data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDlang/perl5.425.42.3 newestno data-[email protected]-
OPNsenselang/perl5.425.42.2 behind since 2026-11-11no data-[email protected]-

Compare across BSDs

Version history 1

  1. 5.42.3

Upstream's version as each commit to the port's Makefile set it, or as this site first saw it in the system's packages; the tree's own revisions are not versions here.

Install

Binary package:

pkg install perl5

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/lang/perl5.42 && make install clean

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

Dependencies

Required by 6655

The first 100 are listed.

Related ports

The same software or family in DragonFly: one homepage, or one name but for a version or a variant.