New Perl

[teck]

Anyone know the easiest way to update to Perl 5.6.1?

 

[mpope]

Use this:
http://layer1.cpanel.net/cplyr1-updater.tar.gz

However, I am unsure how to use it... and have not tried. It would be great If someone could explain how to use it (however simple it may be).

 

[rpmws]

yes do that and then RUN LIKE HELL !!!!!!!!
This was a joke you should be fine.

[Edited on 9/2/01 by rpmws]

 

[MichaelShanks]

how to use it is simple

go into your install directory i use /home/install

run

wget http://layer1.cpanel.net/cplyr1-updater.tar.gz

tar xvvfz cplyr1-updater.tar.gz


cd wp-cpup
./install

 

[teck]

Does this have any adverse side affects? For example, breaking something else on the server?

 

[MichaelShanks]

I think the aim of the update is not to break anything but nothing is ever 100% foolproof, I just whacked it on my test server and it appeared to work correctly,

If you just want to update perl I would personally just download the latest version and do a source install

http://public.ActiveState.com/gsar/perl-5.6.1.tar.gz

 

[JeremyL]

For dome reason I have both 5.6.0 & 5.6.1 installed and I did nothing. Should both be there?