PERL update 1

[boxwrench]

Hello All,

Can anybody point me to a tutorial that would explain to a newbie how to update my version of perl on my server?

I'm at 5.8.3 right now and would like to get up to a current version. I will do all of this via SSH from my local machine.

Is it possible to use up2date and/or the CPAN shell?
How does that all work?

Thanks for any help.
-BoxWrench

 

[azzazzello]

at the command line, do

perl -MCPAN -e "shell"

that will bring you to a cpan shell. There, do

cpan> install Perl

 

[icrf]

Wow, didn't know cpan could do that. I was going to suggest using whatever package management system is native on the server and likely installed your existing version of perl.

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Andrew

 

[MikeLacey]

I didn't know that either...

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[icrf]

I haven't run anything, but from looking around, "Perl" is the name PerlInterp goes by on CPAN, so "install Perl" looks like it'd give you that. You could probably use a specific version and get the bundle/distribution made for it, like perl-5.8.7. Still kind of neat.

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Andrew