Re: I have Perl 5.6 and I need 5.8

[Michael Lake <mikel@speleonics.com.au>]

Nathan Poznick wrote:

> Thus spake Michael Lake:
> > My sources.list is:
> > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
> > deb http://mirror.pacific.net.au/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
> > deb-src http://mirror.pacific.net.au/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
> > deb http://mirror.pacific.net.au/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main 
> > contrib non-free
> > deb-src http://mirror.pacific.net.au/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main 
> > contrib non-free

> You don't have any testing or unstable sources, thus using -t testing
> won't give you anything.  Try adding,
> deb http://mirror.pacific.net.au/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://mirror.pacific.net.au/debian/ testing main contrib non-free

Ah thanks, that did the trick. Perl is now 5.8 but it took a while :-)

Thanks

Mike
Linux enthusiast, caver & interested in anything technical.