From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 1 06:30:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8CA416A4CE for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 06:30:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from grenada.globat.com (grenada.globat.com [216.193.201.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EE0D43D2F for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 06:30:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mazen.comp@alzogbi.com) Received: from tonga.globat.com (tonga.inside.globat.com [10.1.1.31]) by grenada.globat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id i31EU5M8046023 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 06:30:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mazen.comp@alzogbi.com) Received: (qmail 7722 invoked from network); 1 Apr 2004 14:30:02 -0000 Received: from db3249.alshamil.net.ae (HELO alzogbi.com) (217.165.193.249) by tonga.globat.com with SMTP; 1 Apr 2004 14:30:02 -0000 Message-ID: <406C2719.6010807@alzogbi.com> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 18:28:41 +0400 From: "Mazen S. Alzogbi" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Wilson References: <76CBA4753FF32448894B0E13B59C96B852B295@yoda.us.nobilis.com> In-Reply-To: <76CBA4753FF32448894B0E13B59C96B852B295@yoda.us.nobilis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using the newer version of Perl! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 14:30:05 -0000 Jason, Thank you for the tip. I am learning something new about FreeBSD everyday. Cheers, Jason Wilson wrote: > The answer you seek has been in front of you the entire time. Since you > missed the package message that blew by when you installed perl, which > is > a common ailment some of us suffer from (you mean there's something > important to read mixed in with all that configuring, compiling, > linking, > and installing nonsense that fills my scroll buffer!), some ingenious > port > maintainer left the advice for you to read at your leisure in > /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/pkg-message. > > Give it a good read. > > Regards, > Jason Wilson > Director of Technology > Nobilis Software > > Babbling Blatherscythe! Mazen S. Alzogbi > > had this to say: > > >>Hi, >> >>Perl version 5.005_03 was installed with FreeBSD 4.9 by default. I >>installed Perl 5.8.x_x from ports (via FTP). Executing perl -v on the >>console still showing the older version! How can I start using the >>newer >>version? Can't FreeBSD start using the newer version too? >> >>Cheers, >> >>Mazen S. Alzogbi >>http://alzogbi.com/mazen >> >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To >>unsubscribe, send any mail to >>"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Mazen S. Alzogbi http://alzogbi.com/mazen -- Read my Inspirational Weblog on http://alzogbi.com/mazen/iblog/