[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 17/05/2006 09:11:35 AM: > > I currently have 'perl, v5.6.1 built for i386-linux' on RH73 > > what's my best way to bring it up to date ? > and bring modules up to date ? > My experience has been that each perl version installs in its own directory, and has its own binaries etc. eg, perl 5.6.1 could be installed in /usr/perl/5.6.1 The binary is /usr/bin/perl5.6.1 (and /usr/bin/perl is symlinked to it).
You should be able to safely install the latest perl from source without breaking the current version, or any OS dependancies, providing you keep /usr/bin/perl pointing to /usr/bin/perl5.6.1. To then use the latest version, just put #!/usr/bin/perl5.8.1 (for example) in your scripts. Call perl5.8.1 for any debugging, or installing modules etc. Cheers, Scott -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
