Re: Upgrade Perl5.8.7
- From: Sherm Pendley <sherm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:31:59 -0500
Brian Wakem <no@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> dcoleyoung@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm trying to upgrade perl for Linux Mandrake 10.2. I ran all the
>> steps
>> to make, make test and make install cleanly. When I run perl -v it
>> still shows the version as 5.8.6. Perl is still being launched as an
>> old version.
>> If anyone can help me give me a suggestion that would be great!
>> Thanks,
>> Dan
>
>
> /usr/bin/perl is probably a symlink to /usr/bin/perl5.8.6 (or
> /usr/bin/perl5, which in-turn links to /usr/bin/perl5.8.6), and you
> probably now have a /usr/bin/perl5.8.7, you need to link /usr/bin/perl
> (or /usr/bin/perl5) to it.
Another possibility - the default prefix to install Perl under is /usr/local,
so you may have /usr/local/bin/perl && /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.7.
Same solution though, a link from /usr/bin/perl to whatever you want to use
as the default Perl.
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