Mandriva 2009.0 comes with pre-packaged Padre 0.10. Mandriva 2009.1 will ship Padre 0.29. Mandriva cooker (development version) is following upstream quite closely.
To install padre:
# urpmi perl-Padre
To install Padre enter the following commands:
# urpmi perl-Alien-wxWidgets # urpmi perl-Wx $ cpan cpan> install Padre
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