Hi Kindra,
Although you are only aware of the one Perl installation on your server,
there are probably at least two others. A new Sun server from Endeavor
will have Solaris 9, which comes with Perl 5.005 and Perl 5.6. In
addition, as part of the Voyager software installation, you will have
Perl 5.8.5 installed as well as some useful non-default modules such as
the DBI and DBD::Oracle modules (try looking in /m1/shared/). To get a
better idea of what you have on your system, try downloading and running
the "dope.sh" utility [1].
> how do I uninstall 5.005...
I don't recommend un-installing the Solaris OS installed versions of
Perl (unless you really understand the ramifications) since Perl is
required by the operating system.
> ...and reinstall 5.8.6
Installing Perl from the source tarball is fairly straight forward, but
it does require that you have a C compiler already installed on the
server. Endeavor doesn't put a C compiler on, but the GNU Compiler
Collection (gcc) is available on the Solaris software companion CD that
comes as part of the media kit. As I mentioned above, you shouldn't
have to install Perl 5.8.6, as it is likely already on your system.
-- Michael
[1] dope.sh (Discover Oracle-Perl Environment)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kindra Morelock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 10:41 AM
> To: perl4lib@perl.org
> Subject: installing perl 5.8.6
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm new here, and I'm here because I need some major assistance.
>
> We recently purchased a new Sun server through Endeavor.
> Unfortunately, perl 5.005 is installed on it vs. the 5.8.x that we had
> installed on our old server. My predecessor (who was much more of a
> guru in all things unix/perl than I) programmed several customized
> applications in perl 5.8.x that work on the old server, but
> unfortunately don't work with perl 5.005 apparently.
>
> My question is: how do I uninstall 5.005 and reinstall 5.8.6? I
> downloaded the stable.tar.gz from http://www.perl.com/download.csp. I
> am fairly familiar with unix commands and some really basic
> programming
> (I'm more of a VB programmer though). I get a little anxious when I'm
> messing around with stuff on our server, so if anyone has a
> resource or
> step-by-step instructions they could forward me, I would really
> appreciate it.
>
> Thanks,
> Kindra
>
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> Kindra I. Morelock
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