Upgrade Perl5.8.7

[dcoleyoung]

Hi,

I'm trying to upgrade perl for Linux Mandrake 10.2. I ran all the steps
to make, make test and make install cleanly. When I run perl -v it
still shows the version as 5.8.6. Perl is still being launched as an
old version.

If anyone can help me give me a suggestion that would be great!

Thanks,

Dan

 

[Brian Wakem]

Hi,

I'm trying to upgrade perl for Linux Mandrake 10.2. I ran all the steps
to make, make test and make install cleanly. When I run perl -v it
still shows the version as 5.8.6. Perl is still being launched as an
old version.

If anyone can help me give me a suggestion that would be great!

Thanks,

Dan

/usr/bin/perl is probably a symlink to /usr/bin/perl5.8.6 (or
/usr/bin/perl5, which in-turn links to /usr/bin/perl5.8.6), and you
probably now have a /usr/bin/perl5.8.7, you need to link /usr/bin/perl
(or /usr/bin/perl5) to it.

 

[Sherm Pendley]

/usr/bin/perl is probably a symlink to /usr/bin/perl5.8.6 (or
/usr/bin/perl5, which in-turn links to /usr/bin/perl5.8.6), and you
probably now have a /usr/bin/perl5.8.7, you need to link /usr/bin/perl
(or /usr/bin/perl5) to it.

Another possibility - the default prefix to install Perl under is /usr/local,
so you may have /usr/local/bin/perl && /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.7.

Same solution though, a link from /usr/bin/perl to whatever you want to use
as the default Perl.

sherm--