On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 08:07:43PM -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > My Debian installation has Perl version 5.6; I'd like to upgrade to > 5.8. Is there a super-easy way to do that (apt-get doesn't seem to be > doing it)? Or a less than thoroughly painful way, at least?
It depends on what your /etc/apt/sources.list says... you are probably using "stable" or "woody". At this point Debian testing is being frozen for the next stable release... most major changes are over with (X11 4.3 is still expected to land in testing before the final changes). So at this point I think it's getting safe for most people to switch to testing. If you want to do this, edit the sources.list change all "stable" or "woody" words to "testing"... comment out security... you should get a file that looks something like the following: === # deb file:///usr/src/apt/ ./ # deb http://security.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/non-US/ testing/non-US main contrib non-free # deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib # non-free # deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/non-US/ testing/non-US main contrib # non-free === then run "apt-get update", "apt-get dist-upgrade". This process is medium-risk, you will get the new perl, but new everything else too. There are ways to just get the new perl and things it depends on from testing, or compile the perl in testing against the stable system... they are just more complex to explain and lower risk. If you don't feel upto using testing... as for one of these. Keep in mind if you mess up perl, there are quite alot of other things that will break. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
