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Re: [cobalt-users] Perl 5.6.1



Jonathan Slivko wrote:
> Has anyone here tried to upgrade Perl to 5.6.1 and succeeded? From 
> what I heard, the GUI and perl 5.6.1 don't work too well together. 
> Any ideas as to how to go about doing the upgrade, if I should? 
> Any help/guidance would be appreciated.

Don't upgrade.  Just do a separate Perl installation in a completely
different directory (/home/perl561/, for example), and have any Perl
scripts which need the new version point to it specifically.

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Bruce Timberlake
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