On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 15:25, Kartik Thakore <thakore.kar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oh I didn't know you had perl 5.8 ... App::perlbrew would be a simple, non > intrusive way of upgrading just. OMG! I wish it were simple && non-intrusive. ;)
> http://search.cpan.org/dist/App-perlbrew/ > > perlbrew init This command presumptuously created a perl5/perlbrew/* sub-dirs in my $HOME! I moved it to ~/.perlbrew/ instead then had to export PERLBREW_ROOT to the latter. > perlbrew install perl-5.12.1 -D=useithreads <r...@ryua7snajl~>perlbrew installed <r...@ryua7snab2~>perlbrew install perl-5.12.1 -D=useithreads Attempting to load conf from /home/pip/.perlbrew/Conf.pm Fetching perl-5.12.1 as /home/pip/.perlbrew/dists/perl-5.12.1.tar.gz Installing perl-5.12.1 into /home/pip/.perlbrew/perls/perl-5.12.1 This could take a while. You can run the following command on another shell to track the status: tail -f /home/pip/.perlbrew/build.log (cd /home/pip/.perlbrew/build; tar xzf /home/pip/.perlbrew/dists/perl-5.12.1.tar.gz;cd /home/pip/.perlbrew/build/perl-5.12.1;rm -f config.sh Policy.sh;sh Configure -de -Dprefix=/home/pip/.perlbrew/perls/perl-5.12.1 -Duseithreads;make;make test && make install) >> '/home/pip/.perlbrew/build.log' 2>&1 Installing perl-5.12.1 failed. See /home/pip/.perlbrew/build.log to see why. If you want to force install the distribution, try: perlbrew --force install perl <r...@ryua7snb2g~>tail -f .perlbrew/build.log gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now sh: line 0: cd: /home/pip/.perlbrew/build/perl-5.12.1: No such file or directory sh: Configure: No such file or directory make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. make: *** No rule to make target `test'. Stop. <r...@ryua7sndup~>echo "Yipes!" > perlbrew switch perl-5.12.1 > > cpan/pip the stuff again. > > You can switch back to old perl with: > > perlswitch /usr/bin/perlbrew > > Kartik Thakore -Pip
