[WBEL-users] I need to install perl 5.8.3 rpm by yum

[Adam Thomas]

You could also try installing ActivePerl; the latest version of it is 5.8.6

http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/

It will install to /usr/local/ActivePerl, and I haven't seen any
conflicts from having both it and RH perl installed at the same time. 
It comes in RPM format, but I'm not sure if any repos carry it.

Adam

On 4/29/05, Greg Knaddison <greg.knaddison at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/29/05, Pablo Silva <psilvao at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >    I need to install perl 5.8.3 rpm by yum, it's
> > possible because I can't find this version or later.
> >
> >    If you have any hit, please let me know...
> >
> 
> Pablo,
> 
> I frequently do
> 
> # yum list available > YumAvailable.txt
> # yum list installed > YumInstalled.txt
> 
> Then I can do
> 
> # grep -i perl Yum*.txt
> 
> Which shows me if perl is installed, and if so, which version, and if
> not, if it's available it also does this quickly without having to
> kick yum back up just to try perl vs. mod_perl etc.
> 
> You could also do
> 
> # yum list perl
> 
> And see what the output is.  This should tell you if it's installed,
> and what versions are available.
> 
> Looking at the WBEL mirrors it looks like 5.8.0 is the most recent one
> available:
> 
> ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/whitebox/3.0/en/updates/i386/
> 
> Looking at:
> 
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/3/en/os/i386/SRPMS/
> 
> Looks like 5.8.0 is the most recent available through yum, though I
> may be looking in the wrong spot for the updates.
> 
> If you really really really gotta have 5.8.3 it seems like you are
> going to have to find the RPM from somewhere outside of yum and
> install it.
> 
> Another option, if you need perl 5.8.x where x > 2 you could also do
> something like switch to Liberation4 which is available via BitTorrent
> according to http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/news.html and should have
> Perl5.8.5.
> 
> Regards,
> Greg
> 
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