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Date:      Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:30:04 +1000
From:      Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>
To:        Zan <zan6669@comcast.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: upgrading perl -ports
Message-ID:  <43140AFC.10000@meijome.net>
In-Reply-To: <1914B226-1920-11DA-B99D-000D93C763FE@comcast.net>
References:  <1914B226-1920-11DA-B99D-000D93C763FE@comcast.net>

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Zan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Would you please help me?
> 
> in my /usr/local/bin I can clearly see that there is a newer version of 
> perl (5.8.0) already there, but when I type 'perl -v' I see that I'm 
> running off of 5.0. 

5.8 is from ports. 5.0.6. i think, is system based

Is there anything else I can do besides trying the
> "use.perl port" command? Because that doesn't seem to work, 

you need to install the perl from ports before using "use.perl port".

and my jail
> did not come with a ports collection.

virtual hoster? can you download the ports collection and use it? (check 
that you can compile first ;) )





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