diff --git a/connect/dhcp/bootscripts.xml b/connect/dhcp/bootscripts.xml
index b044cbfe93..583699db88 100644
--- a/connect/dhcp/bootscripts.xml
+++ b/connect/dhcp/bootscripts.xml
@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ evaluate_retval
 
 <para>Finally, we need to make these scripts executable:</para>
 
-<para><screen><userinput>chmod 755 ifup-eth0 &amp;&amp;
-chmod 755 ifdown-eth0</userinput></screen></para>
+<para><screen><userinput>chmod 755 /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifup-eth0 &amp;&amp;
+chmod 755 /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifdown-eth0</userinput></screen></para>
 
 </sect2>
 
diff --git a/general/general.ent b/general/general.ent
index b2cb22e34c..b9ca172056 100644
--- a/general/general.ent
+++ b/general/general.ent
@@ -73,12 +73,14 @@
 <!-- Programming -->
 <!ENTITY general-prog SYSTEM "prog/prog.xml">
 <!ENTITY % python SYSTEM "prog/python/python.ent">
+<!ENTITY % perl-modules SYSTEM "prog/perl/perl-modules.ent">
 <!ENTITY % librep SYSTEM "prog/librep/librep.ent">
 <!ENTITY % jdk SYSTEM "prog/jdk/j2sdk.ent">
 <!ENTITY % ruby SYSTEM "prog/ruby/ruby.ent">
 <!ENTITY % gnat SYSTEM "prog/gnat/gnat.ent">
 <!ENTITY % gcc SYSTEM "prog/gcc/gcc.ent">
 %python;
+%perl-modules;
 %librep;
 %jdk;
 %ruby;
diff --git a/general/prog/perl-modules.xml b/general/prog/perl-modules.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..62df6eabb9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/general/prog/perl-modules.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+<sect1 id="perl-modules" xreflabel="perl-modules">
+<?dbhtml filename="perl-modules.html" dir="general"?>
+<title>perl modules</title>
+
+&perl-modules-intro;
+&perl-modules-inst;
+
+</sect1>
+
diff --git a/general/prog/perl/perl-modules-inst.xml b/general/prog/perl/perl-modules-inst.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..32a8db4ce8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/general/prog/perl/perl-modules-inst.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+<sect2>
+<title>Installation of perl modules</title>
+
+<para>Install perl modules by running the following commands:</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>perl Makefile.PL &amp;&amp;
+make &amp;&amp;
+make install</userinput></screen></para>
+
+<para>Below are installation instructions for modules that happen to be
+broken at the present time.</para>
+
+<para>Gtk-Perl-&Gtk-Perl-version;:
+<screen><userinput>perl Makefile.PL --without-guessing &amp;&amp;
+make
+cp Gtk/Makefile Gtk/Makefile.bak &amp;&amp;
+sed '/^OBJECT/s/xs/./g' Gtk/Makefile.bak > Gtk/Makefile &amp;&amp;
+cp Gtk/Makefile Gtk/Makefile.bak &amp;&amp;
+sed '/^OBJECT/s/build/./g' Gtk/Makefile.bak > Gtk/Makefile &amp;&amp;
+make &amp;&amp;
+make install</userinput></screen></para>
+
+
+</sect2>
+
diff --git a/general/prog/perl/perl-modules-intro.xml b/general/prog/perl/perl-modules-intro.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bd18202694
--- /dev/null
+++ b/general/prog/perl/perl-modules-intro.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+<sect2>
+<title>Introduction to perl modules</title>
+
+<para>The perl module packages add useful objects to the Perl
+language.  Modules utilized by packages throughout BLFS are listed here
+along with their dependencies.</para>
+
+<screen><ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/C/CS/CSOE/PDL-&PDL-version;.tar.gz">PDL-&PDL-version</ulink>
+	<ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/A/AA/AALLAN/Astro-FITS-Header-Astro-FITS-Header-version;.tar.gz">Astro-FITS-Header-&Astro-FITS-Header-version;</ulink>
+<ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/L/LU/LUPUS/Gtk-Perl-&Gtk-Perl-version;.tar.gz">Gtk-Perl-&Gtk-Perl-version;</ulink>
+	<ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/D/DM/DMEGG/XML-Writer-&XML-Writer-version;.tar.gz">XML-Writer-&XML-Writer-version;</ulink>
+	<ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/C/CO/COOPERCL/XML-Parser-&XML-Parser-version;.tar.gz">XML-Parser-&XML-Parser-version;</ulink>
+<ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/D/DC/DCONWAY/Parse-RecDescent-&Parse-RecDescent-version;.tar.gz">Parse-RecDescent-&Parse-RecDescent-version;</ulink>
+</screen>
+
+
+</sect2>
diff --git a/general/prog/perl/perl-modules.ent b/general/prog/perl/perl-modules.ent
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a993f45e1f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/general/prog/perl/perl-modules.ent
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+<!ENTITY perl-modules SYSTEM "../perl-modules.xml">
+<!ENTITY perl-modules-intro SYSTEM "perl-modules-intro.xml">
+<!ENTITY perl-modules-inst SYSTEM "perl-modules-inst.xml">
+<!ENTITY perl-modules-exp SYSTEM "perl-modules-exp.xml">
+<!ENTITY perl-modules-desc SYSTEM "perl-modules-desc.xml">
+<!ENTITY perl-modules-config SYSTEM "perl-modules-config.xml">
+<!ENTITY Gtk-Perl-version "0.7008">
+<!ENTITY PDL-version "2.3.4">
+<!ENTITY XML-Parser-version "2.31">
+<!ENTITY XML-Writer-version "0.4">
+<!ENTITY Astro-FITS-Header-version "2.2">
+<!ENTITY Parse-RecDescent-version "1.80">
diff --git a/general/prog/prog.xml b/general/prog/prog.xml
index 7a31393774..7ad5922ed7 100644
--- a/general/prog/prog.xml
+++ b/general/prog/prog.xml
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 <title>Programming</title>
 
 &Python;
+&perl-modules;
 &librep;
 &j2sdk;
 &ruby;
diff --git a/index.xml b/index.xml
index d51cff8221..b2dfb29719 100644
--- a/index.xml
+++ b/index.xml
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" 
 			"/usr/share/docbook/docbookx.dtd" [
 
-<!ENTITY version "20021026">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "October 26th, 2002">
+<!ENTITY version "20021027">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "October 27th, 2002">
 
 <!ENTITY % book SYSTEM "book/book.ent">
 <!ENTITY % preface SYSTEM "preface/preface.ent">
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 308ea1953d..74c346d902 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ page in Chapter 1 for details on who wrote what.</para>
 
 <itemizedlist>
 
+<listitem><para>October 27th, 2002 [larry]: Prog: Added page for perl
+modules used in BLFS</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>October 26th, 2002 [larry]: Basicnet: Update to
 links-0.98.</para></listitem>
 
diff --git a/xsoft/office/gimp/gimp-inst.xml b/xsoft/office/gimp/gimp-inst.xml
index 048a4462d2..9701a06abb 100644
--- a/xsoft/office/gimp/gimp-inst.xml
+++ b/xsoft/office/gimp/gimp-inst.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 <para>Install gimp by running the following commands:</para>
 
-<para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
+<para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &amp;&amp;
 make &amp;&amp;
 make install</userinput></screen></para>
 
diff --git a/xsoft/office/gimp/gimp-intro.xml b/xsoft/office/gimp/gimp-intro.xml
index 18e060d682..cdaa17ca6d 100644
--- a/xsoft/office/gimp/gimp-intro.xml
+++ b/xsoft/office/gimp/gimp-intro.xml
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ is useful for photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.</para>
 <xref linkend="GTK"/>
 gimp will utilize:
 <xref linkend="libtiff"/>, <xref linkend="libpng"/>, <xref
-linkend="libjpeg"/>, <ulink url="http://starship.python.net/~gward/mpeglib/mpeg_lib-1.3.1.tar.gz">mpeg_lib-1.3.1</ulink> and <xref linkend="Python"/></screen>
+linkend="libjpeg"/>, <ulink url="http://starship.python.net/~gward/mpeglib/mpeg_lib-1.3.1.tar.gz">mpeg_lib-1.3.1</ulink>, <xref linkend="Python"/> 
+and <xref linkend="perl-modules"/>:Gtk-Perl-&Gtk-Perl-version;, PDL-&PDL-version; and Parse-RecDescent-&Parse-RecDescent-version;</screen>
 
 </sect2>