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Subject: Re: Upgrade Perl to 5.8.7
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Have a look in Appendix A of the handbook for cvsup - you use this to update
your ports directories.
<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html>

Once you have updated your ports you will find perl 5.8.7 there.

Sounds like the perl-5.8.7.tbz file is the pre-built package
- try pkg_add perl-5.8.7.tbz
You can find more info on packages in chapter 4.4 at -
<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/packages-using.ht
ml>

On 30/8/05 2:08 AM, "Rob MacGregor" <freebsd.macgregor@blueyonder.co.uk>
wrote:

> On Monday, August 29, 2005 5:14 PM, Gawie Marais (Home) <> unleashed the
> infinite monkeys and produced:
> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> We are trying to install a package on freeBSD that requires Perl 5.8.7
>> 
>> Is there any way to install Perl 5.8.7 through the ports as the latest
>> version I can install is Perl 5.8.5
>> 
>> If that is the latest version available through the ports, then can someone
>> point me in the right direction to get version 5.8.7 installed ??
>> 
>> * I have perl-5.8.7.tbz download from the net, but I can't figure out how to
>> install it.
> 
> You have a (very) out of date ports tree.  5.8.7 was added to the tree over 2
> months ago.

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