Re: Upgrading Perl

["Lucas Albers" <albersl@cs.montana.edu>]

Mike Ward said:

> Is doing this really going to be as simple as "apt-get upgrade perl",
> or will this at all also affect mod_perl, etc? I've googled around and
> looked on perl.apache.org but I haven't found anything one way or the
> other.
Yes.
Something like this:
apt-get -t testing install perl

It depends on what perl you are upgrading to.
Stay with stable if you are running a publicly exposed webserver.
A more important questions is, why are you upgrading perl?
If it works, dont' touch it.

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--Luke CS Sysadmin, Montana State University-Bozeman