What is the difference between perl and perl-devel?

[olimpiada]

Hi,
What is the difference between perl and perl-devel? What does mean devel?
I want to install perl-devel on my openSUSE 11.1. First I searched for perl-devel in YAST Software Management and search did not find it. I visited the software.opensuse.org and wrote "perl-devel" and searched. The result was many similar zips with a prefix perl-devel and I can not choose one for needed perl-devel. Please, help me to make a choise which one is true for "perl-devel"...

List of search results:
perl-Devel-Symdump
perl-Devel-CoreStack
perl-Devel-StackTrace
perl-Devel-Caller
perl-Devel-GlobalDestruction
perl-Devel-Leak
perl-Devel-LexAlias
perl-Devel-Trace
perl-Devel-REPL
perl-Devel-Size
perl-Devel-PPPort
perl-Devel-Cycle
apache2-mod_perl-devel

[athare]

Devel means "development" as in the source code / headers. These are usually required when you are compiling from source, or doing development yourself (my best guess at least). What do you want to use the perl-devel for? if you can tell me that, I can make a educated guess on what you need.

[olimpiada]

perl-devel is required by Catalyst. Before installation of Catalyst I must be sure that in my system installed such: make, gcc and perl-devel. make and gcc are already installed, but perl-devel didn't...

[athare]

From what I can see there isn't a global devel package for perl. It sounds like you are compiling something from source. You have 2 options.

1. Try and get the binary for catalyst from the repos instead
2. Try the configure script and paste the output of the error if there are any.