On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 05:20:46PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Since perl-5.8.2 for Cygwin was released in 2003 the chances are good > that every user of Cygwin has it in the local repository, it isn't > offered by Setup, but old packages are not deleted automatically, have > you looked in your local repository? If you find the tarballthere, > just extract it from the Cygwin root (not the recommended way, but > currently the only way to install more than one perl at the same > time).
You can also use Cygwin's setup.exe in the "Install from Local Directory" mode and point it at the directory that contains the perl-5.8.2 tarball too. Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/