Re: Installing Perl 5.8.0 on redhat 7.1

Out of curiosity, is there a reason you have to be on 7.1? Since you are doing a major upgrade to perl, I am guessing this isn't an exteremely sensitive production environment.

As I remember 7.1 wasn't exactly stable. Not to say that I've tried this on 7.3 and it work, but I think you would have a better chance with that.

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Re: Re: Installing Perl 5.8.0 on redhat 7.1 by iguanodon (Priest) on Jan 16, 2003 at 17:58 UTC
I've upgraded to 5.8.0 on Red Hat 7.3 and it went flawlessly - but I built it from the tarball I downloaded from perl.com. I don't use RPMs for stuff like Perl because of previous bad experiences with files ending up in what I consider to be non-standard locations. Is a source RPM the same as the tarball? BTW, my Red hat 7.1 box is still running Perl 5.6.1 because I was worried that the upgrade wouldn't go smoothly and I don't have time right now to fix it if things go horribly wrong. At this point I figure I'll probably just upgrade to the latest Red Hat 8.x which comes with Perl 5.8.0.	[reply]

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Re: Re: Installing Perl 5.8.0 on redhat 7.1
by iguanodon (Priest) on Jan 16, 2003 at 17:58 UTC

BTW, my Red hat 7.1 box is still running Perl 5.6.1 because I was worried that the upgrade wouldn't go smoothly and I don't have time right now to fix it if things go horribly wrong. At this point I figure I'll probably just upgrade to the latest Red Hat 8.x which comes with Perl 5.8.0.

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