Installation - Perl Development Environment
Description: Perl Development Environment

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## 2 Installation

Installing PDE is quit easy. When you download the archive of the PDE distribution, uncompress the archive to a folder, for example, ~/elisp/pde, then put this to your ~/.emacs:

         (add-to-list 'load-path "~/elisp/pde/lisp")
         (load "pde-load")

That is all what you need to do for a typical installation.

You can also use perl style installation:

         ./Build.PL
         ./Build test
         ./Build
         ./Build install

Note that test before build, so perl can test whether have emacs in PATH. The default place to install lisp files is “$ENV{HOME}/.emacs.d/pde”. You can use option —elispdir tell perl where to put the lisp files. Note that using this way to install, you should put ~/elisp/pde to `load-path`. So you should add following to .emacs:

         (add-to-list 'load-path "~/elisp/pde")
         (load "pde-load")