Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 17:30:23 +0200 From: Oliver Braun <obraun@informatik.unibw-muenchen.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrading perl Message-ID: <20020518153023.GA68203@nemesis.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: <20020518100723.H12555-100000@mule.packetmule.net> References: <20020518100723.H12555-100000@mule.packetmule.net>
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Hi Bob,
* Bob Arnold <tarnation@mindspring.com> [2002-05-18 17:24]:
> I"m running 4.5 stable and I'd like to upgrade my perl installation
> from 5.005_03 to 5.6.1_1 using the ports package. It's definitely
> installed:
Of course! It is in your base system.
> but when I try to use the `pkg_update` command, I get:
> pkg_update perl-5.6.1_1.tgz
> updating perl packages to version 5.6.1
> There are no perl packages installed.
That's right. It is in your base system and it is not a port resp.
package.
> ...so just some perl modules that I had installed, but not the main perl
> package. How does one upgrade a package (specifically perl, in my case!)
> in this scenario?
Assuming ${PORTSDIR}==/usr/ports
cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5/
make install
use.perl port
and don't forget to reinstall your perl modules for the new perl
version.
HTH, Olli
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