I am trying to change all existing Perl scripts that use FTP to use SFTP. I've been trying to install Net::SFTP, and Net::SSH::Perl. I've been searching, and finding others that have tried to do this. And, just as others, I am having problems installing.

I'm wondering if I can go about it differently. The version of Perl we are running is v5.6.1, for sun4-solaris. On www.perl.com, it seems that the latest stable version of Perl is 5.5.8.

The version we are using 'has' Net::FTP included in the installation. At least, this I absolutely know: we installed Perl 5.6.1, and did not do anything else, and I wrote a perl script that has 'use Net::FTP' at the top of the program, and, by George, it works.

So, does the latest version of Perl - 5.5.8 - include the SFTP protocol, natively, with no other installation or futzing around?

Or ... has anyone any other suggestions on how to do this installation?

In reply to Latest version of Perl - includes SFTP? by jhs3

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