Re: [cobalt-users] Updating Perl on 550 from 5.6.0 to 5.6.1

[Jay Summers <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 11:44  AM, Josh Kuperman wrote:

> I haven't quite gone past the point where restarting from scratch
> ceases to be an option in configuring this, but am I still restricted
> in updating Perl on a 550? Can I update to 5.8?

Download the tarball for 5.8 and install it to another location. e.g. 
/home/perl5.8

Then change the shebang line in your perl scripts to point to the new 
one. That way you leave the GUI alone and you can tar it up to use it 
on other servers, if you have more. If you have to do an OS restore, 
you just drop the tar backup back in when your done.

HTH,
j