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@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ The software requirements for the installation machine are:
 * Linux, Mac OS X, or other Unix-like OS. (Windows is not supported)
 * [Java 8u92+ or Java 11](../operations/java.md)
 * [Python2 or Python3](../operations/python.md)
+* Perl 5
 
 > Druid relies on the environment variables `JAVA_HOME` or `DRUID_JAVA_HOME` to find Java on the machine. You can set
 `DRUID_JAVA_HOME` if there is more than one instance of Java. To verify Java requirements for your environment, run the