Our IBM p series running AIX 5.1 came with version 5.6.0 and was working fine, installed in /usr/opt.
We wanted to use NET::ftp so we got an rpm package from IBM's site for 5.8.0 and tried to install using rpm -ivh iforgetthename.rpm.
That effort tried to install in /opt/freeware and the /opt filesystem ran out of space.
So we added more space to /opt and tried again, this time completed with no errors.
We changed four links in /usr/bin to point to /opt/freeware/ etc. instead of /usr/opt/perl5.
However perl will not run now, getting the following:

/home/twhite =>perl '-V:install.*'
Goto undefined subroutine &Exporter::heavy_export at /opt/freeware/lib/perl5/5.8 .0/Exporter.pm line 16.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
/home/twhite =>

Can't find instructions on IBM's site. There is no INSTALL file to read. No README either. Haven't tried calling IBM yet.
Should I get the source from CPAN and compile instead?
Many thanks for good advise.

In reply to install 5.8.0 on AIX 5.1 by OneMeanSloth

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