Re: Perl 5.6

[will trillich <will@serensoft.com>]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:31:23PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:11:13PM -0400, Jason Price wrote:
> > I am currently running a stable distribution of debian, but want to get 
> > Perl 5.6 installed.  I noticed it is not in the stable distribution.  
> > What would be the safest/best/easiest way to get it installed?  I'm a 
> > pretty new linux user, so be gentle.  :)
> 
> Compile it up yourself, or get a precompiled binary, and install it
> manually (not with dpkg) in /usr/local. That way, you can have your own
> scripts use Perl 5.6 and Debian packages use Perl 5.005. Don't try to
> crowbar Perl 5.6 into Debian stable directly, as that way lies confusion
> and probable disaster - a lot of stuff depends on perl.
> 
> You can use the stow package to handle the installation in /usr/local if
> you want to make sure it uninstalls cleanly, although using stow on perl
> correctly might be challenging.

i nominate, for understatement of the month, "might be
challenging" from colin watson. any seconds?

:)

-- 
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #27 from Will Trillich <will@serensoft.com>
:
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rxvt session, running under X, specify how many rows and columns
you want:
	rxvt -g 132x30 &
Try "man rxvt" for more info.

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