Binary package “perl-base” in ubuntu bionic

minimal Perl system

 Perl is a scripting language used in many system scripts and utilities.
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 This package provides a Perl interpreter and the small subset of the
 standard run-time library required to perform basic tasks. For a full
 Perl installation, install "perl" (and its dependencies, "perl-modules-5.26"
 and "perl-doc").