-bash: perl: command not found

freebsd-questions:

I have recently installed FreeBSD on an Intel S1200V3RPS system:

2024-08-10 10:18:59 toor@f6 ~
# freebsd-version -kru ; uname -a
13.3-RELEASE
13.3-RELEASE
13.3-RELEASE
FreeBSD f6.tracy.holgerdanske.com 13.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE 
releng/13.3-n257428-80d2b634ddf0 GENERIC amd64


I then installed Perl:

2024-08-10 10:14:07 toor@f6 ~
# pkg install perl5.40
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
	perl5.40: 5.40.0

Number of packages to be installed: 1

The process will require 64 MiB more space.
15 MiB to be downloaded.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
[1/1] Fetching perl5.40-5.40.0.pkg: 100%   15 MiB   5.2MB/s    00:03
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
[1/1] Installing perl5.40-5.40.0...
[1/1] Extracting perl5.40-5.40.0: 100%

2024-08-10 10:19:59 toor@f6 ~
# perl -v
-bash: perl: command not found

2024-08-10 10:20:48 toor@f6 ~
# echo $PATH
/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/root/bin

2024-08-10 10:21:23 toor@f6 ~
# locate perl | grep 'perl$'
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.40/perl
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl


It seems pkg(8) did not put the Perl binary into a path directory (?). 
I could do that, or add a symlink, but am unsure of the "correct" approach.


Please advise.


David