Re: Howto upgrade perl without removing everything
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:54:52 -1000
Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 03:03:49PM +0000, Richard wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > Playing dangerously with Sid, and I've reached the limit
> > of what it will upgrade to without some help. Nearly
> > everything has a dependency on perl, the perl version has
> > change, so how do just upgrade the perl base. I can't see
> > the equivalent of rpm --nodeps in apt-get, and clean up
> > the mess afterwards.
>
> Yours might be simply an upgrade question, but if you need
> the latest, greatest(?) perl, you can use perlbrew[1] to
> install multiple versions of perl in your home directory.
> This avoids problems of what the Debian system expects for
> its purposes. Also, local::lib[2] allows you to install modules in
> your home directory of different (generally later) versions
> than are available through Debian packages.
>
> cheers,
>
> Joel
>
> 1. https://metacpan.org/module/perlbrew
>
> 2. https://metacpan.org/module/local::lib
>
Thanks for the info
--
Best wishes / 73
Richard Bown
e-mail: richard@g8jvm.com or richard.bown@blueyonder.co.uk
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