From mark at purdue.edu  Thu Nov  9 10:47:03 2017
From: mark at purdue.edu (Mark Senn)
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2017 13:47:03 -0500
Subject: [Purdue-pm] installing new Perl 6 instructions
Message-ID: <32317.1510253223@pier.ecn.purdue.edu>

I like the new Perl 6 language much better than Perl 5.
See https://perl6.org for some of the reasons why.

I installed the new Perl 6 using a normal Linux account by

    downloading rakudo-star-2017.10.tar.gz from
    https://rakudo.perl6.org/downloads/star/

    cd

    cd sw (I already had a sw directory---short for "software")

    tar xf ~/Downloads/rakudo-star-2017.10.tar.gz

    cd rakudo-star-2017.10

    perl Configure.pl --backend=moar --gen-moar

    make

    make install

    This put the perl6 executable in
        /home/pier/e/mark/sw/rakudo-star-2017.10/install/bin/perl

	See
        http://rakudo.org/
    for more information.

-mark