Re: Upgrading Perl and Solaris on a unix box

From: Michael A Chase tech (mchase_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: 01/12/05 

Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 18:23:48 -0800
To:  ruimvelds@mail.ev1.net

On 01/11/2005 07:26 AM, ruimvelds said:

> I have inherited a Unix box with solaris 5.7 and Perl 5.6.0
> installed. It was created in 2001.
>
> I have had problems accessing an Oracle 9i database. One
> recomendation was to install the 9i client on the box, but the 9i
> client software only has installation modules for solaris 5.8 and
> 5.9.

> People are recomending we upgrade the machine from solaris 5.7 to
> 5.9.
>
> If this were to be done, does this mean I would have to re-install
> all perl modules?

Probably, but it's a good time to ugrade everything in the Perl tree. I
don't know any modules off hand that haven't changed since 2001.

> Also if we upgrade to solaris 5.9, would it be reasonable to upgrade
> to a later version of Perl and if so what version.

The latest (5.8.6) unless someone has heard of any show-stoppers with it.

> This whole trouble seems to spark around having PErl 5.6.0 on a
> solaris 5.7 machine, but I am not sure what the best recomendation to
> the problem is as I am not a system administrator and I don't
> understand the issues involved.

With so much that is so old, upgrading is almost a no brainer. The only
thing that might stop you is if some of the old hardware is not
supported by the newer version of the OS. 

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