From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 4 11:41:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.ms-agentur.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D93A337B401 for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 11:41:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.ms-agentur.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id UAA05428; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 20:49:07 +0200 Message-ID: <3B6C424A.5E8C79C7@i-clue.de> Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 20:43:22 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob Hudson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Perl upgrade References: <20010803102720.C5515@cogit8.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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