Kindra, I am sure other people will give you more concrete advice. But you probably want to make sure not to uninstall the perl 5.005 - some pages on the net note that this package is used by some Sun utilities. Just keep the previous in place, and install 5.8.6 in addition, by putting the new one in /usr/local, or /opt
Rick
At 10:40 AM 5/19/2005 -0500, Kindra Morelock wrote:
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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