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John Tocher

This nearly got me there. Getting the perl language server installed was a pain point for me. For others stumbling on this page, on ubuntu linux 20.04 LTS, the process for me was:

(The following three may not be necessary if you've already got your computer configutred for development, but for a fresh isntall I was helping someone else with, this was necessary).

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install build-essential

The missing library I needed was installed with:
sudo apt install libanyevent-perl libio-aio-perl

I found this from the following source if you would like more details:
github.com/richterger/Perl-Languag...

Then I could successfully install the language server with:
sudo cpan Perl::LanguageServer

VS code would then successfully install the plugin and run as expected.

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Kai Carver

Thank you!