RE: [cobalt-users] Perl 5.6.1

["Gil Bechtel" <gil@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> Basically, the Cobalt wouldn't see the newer version and would
> still use 5.05 for the GUI, correct?. The problem here is that I
> can't do that, I am installing perl via Request Tracker (a trouble
> ticket system) as a prerequisite to using their code. I do not
> know if I can change the install directory for perl like that
> without breaking something major, either in the install script or
> in the program itself, after it's installed. I would really be
> appreciative if someone can point out to me a good GPL'd trouble
> ticket system, or a way to install RT (Request Tracker) without
> installing the perl 5.6.1 dependency. -- Jonathan
>
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>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: Bruce Timberlake <bruce.timberlake@xxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 16:40:33 -0800
>
> >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.
> >
> >--
> >Bruce Timberlake
> >Technology Engineer
> >Sun Cobalt Server Appliances
> >Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> >
> >E: bruce.timberlake@xxxxxxx
> >U: http://www.sun.com/cobalt/
> >

I installed 5.6.1 on my RaQ2 , At first I chose the default install
/usr/local (bad mistake), I did blow my GUI out but reinstalled to the
default Cobalt directory of /usr and all is up and running now with no
problems

Gil