Installing Perl

silicon39 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: Installing Perl by kilinrax (Deacon) on Dec 07, 2000 at 00:57 UTC
Have you tried looking on CPAN? They have a section of links to HP-UX Perl ports, which includes a pre-built, easy to install version of Perl.	[reply]
Re: Installing Perl by jynx (Priest) on Dec 07, 2000 at 01:05 UTC
a couple of suggestions, You will want to compile and install the perl distribution yourself since if you just pull down a binary from somewhere it might have incompatibilities with your system. Usually the perl Configure script will choose the best choice for your system, so for the most part it's not a difficult installation. As for compilers, HP-UX 10.20 should have CD's that you can install software development packages from, including (if i remember correctly) gcc and ansic. These will install into /opt by default. If you don't have these distributions and can't or don't want to pull down and compile them yourself than you will probably want a precompiled perl. If you sit down and go through the perl install with a proper compiler it should take no more than an hour (that's about how long it took for a s700 running 10.20 here)... jynx ps hope this helps; and if you want a documented procedure i've gotten one written up somewhere around here, i can't guarantee it'll be better than you've seen already though...	[reply]
Re: Installing Perl by lemming (Priest) on Dec 07, 2000 at 01:01 UTC
Try this to start with: A lead Possible Binary Update: Darn! kilinrax got there first! Hmm. I'll just be saying what's in the CB right now Looks like silicon39 is tired of waiting for the actual admin to install Perl. And gcc isn't on there either. Yech! I have gone through the trouble of installing Perl on an HP. 10.20 even. It was hell for me at the time, because I kept finding incompatiblities between different versions of HP-UX. That and a compiler was not included, but this was in 1998, maybe it's better now. If this machine isn't used by other people and you can afford to totally screw it over, play with it and try the various installs. You'll learn a lot in the process.	[reply]