Upgrade from Perl4

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

I have never had to do this before, so bear with me. We are running HP-UX on an HP L1000 and the Perl distribution present is 4.0. I recently installed Perl5.00503, but
perl -v
still shows version 4.0. Should I move
/usr/local/bin/perl5.00503
to
/usr/local/bin/perl
or did I miss something? Thanks!

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Re: Upgrade from Perl4 by zigster (Hermit) on Apr 24, 2001 at 18:27 UTC
You are better off using a symlink <code > ln -s /usr/local/bin/perl5.00503 /usr/local/bin/perl </code> This makes /usr/local/bin/perl a kinda alias for perl5. They share the same inode. Using a symlink like this means upgrades in the future are easy and easily rolled back. -- Zigster	[reply]
Re: Upgrade from Perl4 by LordAvatar (Acolyte) on Apr 24, 2001 at 19:26 UTC
HP by default has their Perl4 distro in /usr/bin/perl . When you run perl -v Version 4 will run by default and not the Perl5 executable. Following zigster's post above, set up a symlink. But, I would also add a symlink between /usr/bin/perl and the location of your perl5 executable. -LordAvatar	[reply]