At 08:51 AM 2/2/04 -0800, Ravi Malghan wrote:
Hello: I have perl 5.005_03 on solaris 2.8 which was installed with the OS. I would like to upgrade it to 5.6. Should I pkgrm the existing perl before I install the new perl ? or is there any other recommended way to upgrade.
you might check with Sun, I think that they have a patch that will upgrade their version of perl that is actually in /usr/perl5.
So what you can do is build a version of perl 5.8.3 and install it in /usr/local/ you can then make the symbolic link for /usr/bin/perl point at /usr/local/bin/perl and Sun's stuff will work in it's own space, since it is built to look for /usr/perl5/bin/perl
eg
vladimir: 59:] head /usr/bin/kstat | sed 's/^/ /'
#!/usr/perl5/bin/perl
#
# Copyright (c) 1999, 2001 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
# All rights reserved.
#
#ident "@(#)kstat.pl 1.3 01/11/09 SMI" require 5.6.1;
use strict;
use warnings;
vladimir: 60:]HTH.
ciao drieux
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