perl 5.6 potato
hi, anyone tried to set up perl 5.6 on potato? it seems as it is the first perl that replaces all others instead of adding itself as /usr/bin/perl5.6. any troubles i might face or does it install fine? tia martin -- GnuPG 1024D/3E8DCCC0 30DC 1D28 1D79 32F5 5E67 3ABB 28EE B35A 3E8D CCC0 work: factline Krisper Fabro Harnoncourt OEG (www.factline.com)
Re: perl 5.6 potato
On Tue, 22 May 2001 11:20:06 +0200, Martin Würtele wrote: ** hi, ** ** anyone tried to set up perl 5.6 on potato? it seems as it is the first perl ** that replaces all others instead of adding itself as /usr/bin/perl5.6. ** ** any troubles i might face or does it install fine? Hi! I use perl5.6 on potato! My mailclient CSCMail is wirtten in perl and works fine! But be careful by upgrading the required packages. And you could need to upgrade your libc6. I upgradet to glibc2.2.4 to use kernel 2.4.4 with tools like modutils. But i think some perl5.6 packages needs glibc2.2.x. So look first for the dependencies. You can do this on the debian package searchangine. If you need to upgrade your libc6 you have to do it at first. Otherwise you can't use tools like dpkg. It's very angry if this will happens. So note: You need always a working perl, dpkg needs it. Timo
Re: perl 5.6 potato
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:43:32AM +0200, Timeboy wrote: I use perl5.6 on potato! My mailclient CSCMail is wirtten in perl and works fine! But be careful by upgrading the required packages. And you could need to upgrade your libc6. I upgradet to glibc2.2.4 to use kernel 2.4.4 with tools like modutils. But i think some perl5.6 packages needs glibc2.2.x. So look first for the dependencies. You can do this on the debian package searchangine. If you need to upgrade your libc6 you have to do it at first. Otherwise you can't use tools like dpkg. It's very angry if this will happens. So note: You need always a working perl, dpkg needs it. so if i compile it first on potato this should fix dependencies for glibc and libc6 there should not be too many troubles to get it running? yours martin -- GnuPG 1024D/3E8DCCC0 30DC 1D28 1D79 32F5 5E67 3ABB 28EE B35A 3E8D CCC0 work: factline Krisper Fabro Harnoncourt OEG (www.factline.com)
Re: perl 5.6 potato
If you need to upgrade your libc6 you have to do it at first. Otherwise you can't use tools like dpkg. It's very angry if this will happens. So note: You need always a working perl, dpkg needs it. If you're going to upgrade libc remember to keep a backup of: - the original packages (libc6, libc6-dev, libdb2) (in general: a backup of every package that you upgrade) - ldconfig (the executable, not the package) - dpkg (idem) You might want to return to the old version Iwan.
Re: perl 5.6 potato
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 12:37:47PM +0200, Iwan Mouwen wrote: If you're going to upgrade libc remember to keep a backup of: - the original packages (libc6, libc6-dev, libdb2) (in general: a backup of every package that you upgrade) wouldn't an apt-get install --reinstall with potato sources install the original potato version? - ldconfig (the executable, not the package) - dpkg (idem) You might want to return to the old version just in case: i did a full backup to tape today and will do so on another tape before installing it. by now i'm still trying to compile tests for anydm and ndbm failed... yours martin -- GnuPG 1024D/3E8DCCC0 30DC 1D28 1D79 32F5 5E67 3ABB 28EE B35A 3E8D CCC0 work: factline Krisper Fabro Harnoncourt OEG (www.factline.com)
