Oh, and I forgot to mention *why* you need the libperl-dev package. In the spirit of the question you asked (teach me so I can do for myself) Debian takes the very interesting (and IMHO very smart) approach to packaging libraries by dividing them in to user and developer packages. If all you need is to use the library in a program, all you need is the user package. If you need to develop something with the program, or compile another program from source that requires the lib, then you need the -dev version of the package as well. This saves disk space and reduces the amount of useless crap on your system. There you go. You're fed :-)
- David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
