Hi Hans, On Sun, 26 May 2002, Hans Hagen wrote: > I want to install a perl/dbi/sql script on the web server, but it looks > like redhat comes with a pretty poor perl installed. In which sense poor? Is perl too old or only to incomplete? (Which RedHat? 7.3? lsb_release -r should reveal that [given that it follows the gLSB to at least a certain extend])
Besides the suggestion from Michael Wiedmann to use 'perl -MCPAN -e shell' there are also a lot of PERL modules available as RPM. Try http://www.redhat.com/apps/download/advanced_search.html In general I prefer to use the database (rpm or deb/dpkg) in favour of the perl installation since otherwise it is a bit unclear what is on the harddisk -- and updating a bit more difficult ;-) Tobias
