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+<sect2>
+<title>Installation of Perl</title>
+
+<para>
+Install Perl by running the following commands:
+</para>
+
+<blockquote><literallayout>
+
+ <userinput>./Configure -Dprefix=/usr &amp;&amp;</userinput>
+ <userinput>make &amp;&amp;</userinput>
+ <userinput>make install</userinput>
+
+</literallayout></blockquote>
+
+<para>
+If you don't want to answer all those questions Perl asks you, you can
+add the -d option to the configure script and Perl will use all the
+default settings. To avoid the Configure script asking you questions
+after the config.sh file has been created you can pass the -e parameter
+to perl as well. The commands with these parameters included will be:
+</para>
+
+<blockquote><literallayout>
+
+ <userinput>./Configure -Dprefix=/usr -d -e &amp;&amp;</userinput>
+ <userinput>make &amp;&amp;</userinput>
+ <userinput>make install</userinput>
+
+</literallayout></blockquote>
+
+</sect2>
+