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diff --git a/chapter06/perl.xml b/chapter06/perl.xml
index 1bc1397ff..1faa7a9c1 100644
--- a/chapter06/perl.xml
+++ b/chapter06/perl.xml
@@ -3,13 +3,14 @@
   <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
   %general-entities;
 ]>
-<sect1 id="ch-system-perl" xreflabel="Perl" role="wrap">
+<sect1 id="ch-system-perl" role="wrap">
 <title>Perl-&perl-version;</title>
 <?dbhtml filename="perl.html"?>
 
 <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl"><primary sortas="a-Perl">Perl</primary></indexterm>
 
 <sect2 role="package"><title/>
+<para>The Perl package contains the Practical Extraction and Report Language.</para>
 
 <segmentedlist>
 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
@@ -17,24 +18,44 @@
 <seglistitem><seg>2.9 SBU</seg><seg>143 MB</seg></seglistitem>
 </segmentedlist>
 
+<segmentedlist>
+<segtitle>Perl installation depends on</segtitle>
+<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
+Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
+</segmentedlist>
 </sect2>
 
 <sect2 role="installation">
 <title>Installation of Perl</title>
 
-<para>Prepare Perl for compilation:</para>
+<para>To have full control over the way Perl is set up, run the
+interactive <command>Configure</command> script and hand-pick the way
+this package is built. If the defaults it auto-detects are suitable,
+prepare Perl for compilation with:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr -Dpager="/bin/less -isR"</userinput></screen>
 
+<para>The meaning of the configure option:</para>
+
+<variablelist>
+<varlistentry>
+<term><parameter>-Dpager="/bin/less -isR"</parameter></term>
+<listitem><para>This corrects an error in the <command>perldoc</command> code with the invocation
+of the <command>less</command> program.</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+</variablelist>
+
 <para>Compile the package:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
 
-<para>Create a basic <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file:</para>
+<para>To run the test suite, first create a basic
+<filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file which is needed by a couple of
+tests to resolve the network name localhost:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" &gt; /etc/hosts</userinput></screen>
 
-<para>Run the tests:</para>
+<para>Now run the tests, if desired:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>make test</userinput></screen>
 
@@ -47,8 +68,257 @@
 
 <sect2 id="contents-perl" role="content"><title>Contents of Perl</title>
 
-<para>See testing</para>
+<segmentedlist>
+<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
+<segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
+<seglistitem><seg>a2p, c2ph, dprofpp, enc2xs,
+find2perl, h2ph, h2xs, libnetcfg, perl, perl&perl-version; (link to perl),
+perlbug, perlcc, perldoc, perlivp, piconv, pl2pm, pod2html, pod2latex, pod2man,
+pod2text, pod2usage, podchecker, podselect, psed (link to s2p), pstruct (link
+to c2ph), s2p, splain, and xsubpp</seg>
+<seg>Several hundred which cannot all be listed here</seg></seglistitem>
+</segmentedlist>
+
+<variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
+<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
+
+<varlistentry id="a2p">
+<term><command>a2p</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Translates awk to Perl</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl a2p"><primary sortas="b-a2p">a2p</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="c2ph">
+<term><command>c2ph</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Dumps C structures as generated from <command>cc -g -S</command></para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl c2ph"><primary sortas="b-c2ph">c2ph</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="dprofpp">
+<term><command>dprofpp</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Displays Perl profile data</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl dprofpp"><primary sortas="b-dprofpp">dprofpp</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="en2cxs">
+<term><command>en2cxs</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Builds a Perl extension for the Encode module from either
+Unicode Character Mappings or Tcl Encoding Files</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl en2cxs"><primary sortas="b-en2cxs">en2cxs</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="find2perl">
+<term><command>find2perl</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Translates <command>find</command> commands to Perl</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl find2perl"><primary sortas="b-find2perl">find2perl</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="h2ph">
+<term><command>h2ph</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header files to
+<filename class="extension">.ph</filename> Perl header files</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2ph"><primary sortas="b-h2ph">h2ph</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="h2xs">
+<term><command>h2xs</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header files to Perl extensions</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2xs"><primary sortas="b-h2xs">h2xs</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="libnetcfg">
+<term><command>libnetcfg</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Can be used to configure the <filename class="libraryfile">libnet</filename></para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl libnetcfg"><primary sortas="b-libnetcfg">libnetcfg</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="perl">
+<term><command>perl</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Combines some of the best features of C, sed, awk and sh into a
+single swiss-army language</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl"><primary sortas="b-perl">perl</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="perl-version">
+<term><command>perl&perl-version;</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>A hard link to <command>perl</command></para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl-version"><primary
+sortas="b-perl&perl-version;">perl&perl-version;</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+
+<varlistentry id="perlbug">
+<term><command>perlbug</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Used to generate bug reports about Perl, or the modules that come
+with it, and mail them</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlbug"><primary sortas="b-perlbug">perlbug</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="perlcc">
+<term><command>perlcc</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Generates executables from Perl programs</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlcc"><primary sortas="b-perlcc">perlcc</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="perldoc">
+<term><command>perldoc</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Displays a piece of documentation in pod format that is embedded
+in the Perl installation tree or in a Perl script</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perldoc"><primary sortas="b-perldoc">perldoc</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="perlivp">
+<term><command>perlivp</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>The Perl Installation Verification Procedure; it can be used to
+verify that Perl and its libraries have been installed
+correctly</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlivp"><primary sortas="b-perlivp">perlivp</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="piconv">
+<term><command>piconv</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>A Perl version of the character encoding converter
+<command>iconv</command></para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl piconv"><primary sortas="b-piconv">piconv</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="pl2pm">
+<term><command>pl2pm</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>A rough tool for converting Perl4 <filename class="extension">.pl</filename>
+files to Perl5 <filename class="extension">.pm</filename> modules</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pl2pm"><primary sortas="b-pl2pm">pl2pm</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="pod2html">
+<term><command>pod2html</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Converts files from pod format to HTML format</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2html"><primary sortas="b-pod2html">pod2html</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="pod2latex">
+<term><command>pod2latex</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Converts files from pod format to LaTeX format</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2latex"><primary sortas="b-pod2latex">pod2latex</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="pod2man">
+<term><command>pod2man</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Converts pod data to formatted *roff input</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2man"><primary sortas="b-pod2man">pod2man</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="pod2text">
+<term><command>pod2text</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Converts pod data to formatted ASCII text</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2text"><primary sortas="b-pod2text">pod2text</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="pod2usage">
+<term><command>pod2usage</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Prints usage messages from embedded pod docs in files</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2usage"><primary sortas="b-pod2usage">pod2usage</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="podchecker">
+<term><command>podchecker</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Checks the syntax of pod format documentation files</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podchecker"><primary sortas="b-podchecker">podchecker</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="podselect">
+<term><command>podselect</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Displays selected sections of pod documentation</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podselect"><primary sortas="b-podselect">podselect</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="psed">
+<term><command>psed</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>A Perl version of the stream editor <command>sed</command></para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl psed"><primary sortas="b-psed">psed</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="pstruct">
+<term><command>pstruct</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Dumps C structures as generated from <command>cc -g -S</command> stabs</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pstruct"><primary sortas="b-pstruct">pstruct</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="s2p">
+<term><command>s2p</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Translates sed to Perl</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl s2p"><primary sortas="b-s2p">s2p</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="splain">
+<term><command>splain</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Is used to force verbose warning diagnostics in Perl</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl splain"><primary sortas="b-splain">splain</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="xsubpp">
+<term><command>xsubpp</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Converts Perl XS code into C code</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-perl xsubpp"><primary sortas="b-xsubpp">xsubpp</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+</variablelist>
 
 </sect2>
 
 </sect1>
+