Installing perl in NI-RT Linux 2020

[Hitesh_Dhola]

Hello

I am having 8861 RT controller based on RT Linux. I want to install perl to test few things. It is not available on opkg package. 

I know how to install offline package. But would anyone have which would be the right package to install for perl for NI RT linux.

Current RT kernel is,

4.14.146-rt67-cg-8.0.0f1-x64-139

Can it effect performance if we install external perl package ?

[rtollert]

Nah.

I guess watch your disk usage. perl itself is pretty small, but hitting CPAN a lot might add up.

[Hitesh_Dhola]

Thanks rtollert,

Can I install standard perl distribution from CPAN for my version of rt kernel? Or any special version is available for RT?

I need to build EPICS base. All other tool like GNU make, c++ compiler already available. Only perl is missing.

[rtollert]

There's nothing RT-specific about any of that, so fire away I guess. Don't expect determinism though obviously.