From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 17 20:14: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from above.proper.com (above.proper.com [208.184.76.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D198737B423 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 20:14:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phoffman@proper.com) Received: from [165.227.249.18] (ip18.proper.com [165.227.249.18] (may be forged)) by above.proper.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA11890 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 20:13:59 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: phoffprop@mail.proper.com Message-Id: Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 20:13:30 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Paul Hoffman Subject: Perl 5.6 on FreeBSD 4.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings again. I was amazed not to see anything in the archives about this. FreeBSD 4.3 comes with Perl 5.005 installed. I need to run Perl 5.6 for some of the programs I'm bringing over. In /usr/ports/lang/perl5, it says: >This port is marked FORBIDDEN as it conflics badly with the Perl5 >that is in the 'base' system. Sysadmins and users who know how to >override this may do so, and must accept the risk of doing so. That's not very helpful. Is there a known safe way of installing Perl 5.6 and keeping the two installations parallel? I'm happy to have it installed as /usr/bin/perl5.6 or something like that. --Paul Hoffman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message