[Beds] RE: Upgrading Perl

[Lee Larcombe]

I don't use slackware, but I would have thought it would be perfectly ok to
just uninstall the slackware perl 5.6 packages and compile the latest perl
from cpan.

The perl compilation is quite simple - then you would just need to install
any modules are not part of the standard perl distribution.

Alternatively, you can run two different versions of perl side-by-side.

Lee


On 5/10/05 12:47 pm, "Stephen Elliott" <techweb at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I don't really want to upgrade the distribution as I have everything in
> place, working perfectly. I do most stuff from source so it's up to date.
> Just that I want to upgrade perl but am worried it may end up being a messy
> process.
> 
> Steve...
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> Hi Steve,
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> On Friday 30 Sep 2005 15:26, Stephen Elliott wrote:
>> Anyone know a quick, easy and safe way to upgrade perl. I'm currently
> using
>> perl 5.6.1 on a slackware 8 box. I would like to upgrade to the latest
>> version.
> 
> Odd you got no replies, we have Slackware users in the group.
> 
> Can't you update to a more recent version of Slackware with a newer Perl
> distribution?
> 
> Regards,
> Neil Darlow
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