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Re: [cobalt-users] Perl 5.6.1
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Perl 5.6.1
- From: Bruce Timberlake <bruce.timberlake@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Nov 7 16:50:08 2001
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
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
Technology Engineer
Sun Cobalt Server Appliances
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
E: bruce.timberlake@xxxxxxx
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