From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 18 9: 0:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gatesrv.RZ.UniBw-Muenchen.de (unknown [137.193.11.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8057337B404 for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 09:00:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nemesis.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de (nemesis.Informatik.UniBw-Muenchen.de [137.193.60.30]) by gatesrv.RZ.UniBw-Muenchen.de (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g4IFUP216257 for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 17:30:25 +0200 (MEST) Received: from localhost (localhost.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de [127.0.0.1]) by nemesis.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67D6B5A548 for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 17:30:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: by nemesis.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 13C705A547; Sat, 18 May 2002 17:30:23 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 17:30:23 +0200 From: Oliver Braun To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrading perl Message-ID: <20020518153023.GA68203@nemesis.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de> Mail-Followup-To: Oliver Braun , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020518100723.H12555-100000@mule.packetmule.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020518100723.H12555-100000@mule.packetmule.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich, Germany X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-OS: FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE i386 http://www.freebsd.org/ X-Newsreader: SLRN http://www.slrn.org/ X-Uptime: 16 days X-URL: http://ist.unibw-muenchen.de/People/obraun X-Accept-Language: de en X-Location: Europe, Germany, Munich X-Editor: Vim-601 http://www.vim.org/ X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Bob, * Bob Arnold [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 -- IST & IIS _ INF _ UniBwM ____ http://ist.unibw-muenchen.de/People/obraun/ Tele-Consulting GmbH ________ http://www.tele-consulting.com/ ___ obraun@ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message