Hi- (I have been searching for quite a while on Google as well as debian and perl mailing lists and there appears to be very little doc on this.)
I have a box that has debian (woody) installed on it. I've also installed perl 5.6.1 and a variety of its associated packages (perl-modules, etc.) using apt-get and also CPAN. #perl -v This is perl, v5.6.1 built for i386-linux ------------- #apt-cache showpkg perl Package: perl Versions: 5.6.1-8.7(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages)(/var/lib/apt/lists/mirrors.kernel.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages)(/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_stable_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages)(/var/lib/dpkg/status) Now, because of some dependencies in some CPAN modules that require a higher version of perl, I would like to upgrade my perl to 5.8. I would like to work within the framework of apt-get, because perl has a lot of dependencies. But when I try to use apt-get I get an error message: #apt-get install perl=5.8 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Version '5.8' for 'perl' was not found Various searches have turned up no info about how to do this kind of upgrade, yet I'm sure I can't be the first to try this. What am I missing? Any info appreciated. Thanks. -K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
