From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 10 05:46:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA01410 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 05:46:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uswgmn1.uswc.uswest.com (uswgmn1.uswest.com [204.147.87.74]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA01401 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 05:46:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by uswgmn1.uswc.uswest.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) id HAA16489; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 07:44:56 -0500 (CDT) Received: from egate.mnet.uswest.com(151.116.23.138) by uswgmn1.uswc.uswest.com via smap (V1.3) id sma016486; Wed Apr 10 07:44:26 1996 Received: from easthub (easthub.mnet.uswest.com [151.117.26.86]) by egate.mnet.uswest.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id GAA17258; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 06:44:25 -0600 (MDT) Received: by easthub.mnet.uswest.com (M-Net Hub.951228) Received: from astro.acs.uswest.com by acs.uswest.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA02506; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 07:44:23 -0500 Received: from kermit by astro.acs.uswest.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id HAA15511; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 07:44:15 -0500 Message-Id: <316BAD1F.3514@uswest.com> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 07:44:15 -0500 From: "Paul T. Root" Organization: !nterprise Networking Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Andersen Cc: "Helio Coelho Jr. - CompuLand Informatica" , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl v.5 References: <199604100832.CAA01311@shell.aros.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dave Andersen wrote: > > Perl5 is available in both the packages collection and the ports > collection. The easiest way to install it is to grab it from the > packages (ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/packages) and do a pkg_add on > it. Otherwise, you make it from the ports collection. > > -Dave Andersen > > Lo and behold, Helio Coelho Jr. - CompuLand Informatica once said: > > Hi: > > > > I'm running FreeBSD 2.1R (from Walnut Creek cdrom). I know that it cames > > with perl v.5, but when I issue a 'perl -v', I got 'Perl Version 4'. I need > > to run > > perl v.5. What can I do ? > > > > Thanks! > > Helio. I'm going to guess that when Helio installed, he had perl v.5 installed but when he tries to run he gets v.4. The problem is that perl5 is installed in /usr/local/bin and perl4 is installed in /bin Paul. -- Paul T. Root E/Mail: ptroot@uswest.com 200 S. 5th St. Suite 1100 PAG: +1 (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7370 Minneapolis, MN 55402 WRK: +1 (612) 663-1979 NIC: PTR FAX: +1 (612) 663-8030