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Date:      Tue, 23 Mar 2004 20:41:27 -0500
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How To Upgrade to Perl 5.8 on 4.9 System?
Message-ID:  <4060E747.2050208@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <4060DB5B.20305@mykitchentable.net>
References:  <4060DB5B.20305@mykitchentable.net>

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Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> I'm using 4.9-RELEASE.  Is is possible to upgrade Perl from the default 
> 5.005 version to 5.8.2?

Yes.

> Are there any steps required beyond installing the port?

Try:

cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8
make install
use.perl port

-- 
-Chuck



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