Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 20:43:22 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@i-clue.de> To: Rob Hudson <rob@euglug.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Perl upgrade Message-ID: <3B6C424A.5E8C79C7@i-clue.de> References: <20010803102720.C5515@cogit8.org>
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Rob Hudson wrote: > > Hello, > > What's the best way to upgrade the base perl installation from 5.005 > to 5.6.1? Earlier, I installed 5.6.1 from CPAN without thinking too > much about it. Now I have perl-5.005 as /usr/bin/perl, and perl-5.6.1 > as /usr/local/bin/perl. Is this a good way? It's the default way. Perl 5.0x will still be the default system perl in 4.4-Release. If you want to start developing with newer Perl versions, a second installation will help the system to stay stable. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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