What&#x27;s the strange bad-mouthing of Red Hat in this article?  Upstream Perl comes with dozens of modules in the base tarball, and the packaging just splits that into separate RPMs so you can have more minimal installs.  If you really want to install all the modules from the upstream tarball, you install <i>perl-core</i> which is a meta-package that pulls in everything.  You can install CGI.pm either by:<p><pre><code>    yum install &#x27;perl(CGI)&#x27;
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or by:<p><pre><code>    yum install perl-core
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and this works on Fedora and RHEL (I just checked).<p>The article claims it&#x27;s <i>not really what you would recognise as Perl</i> and Red Hat <i>[strips] out many parts of Perl that they consider non-essential</i> both of which are plainly untrue.