how to upgrade Perl

Perica Veljanovski FreeBSD at euro.net.mk
Mon Jul 26 04:09:19 PDT 2004


> > How do I upgrade perl version 5.005_03 to Perl 5.8 on my FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE
> > from ports?
> > 
> > Tryed:
> > cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8
> > make install
> > and nothing happend :P
> 
> Nothing at all? Was there no output on the console?
> 
> If you did see the normal kind of burbling, but still find ports use the 
> original version, you probably haven't done:
> 
> #use.perl port

all done :)

I did the make install in ssh from a windows box, an gues what, the
windows box crashed during the make install on the fbsd box. And since
I'm lazy enough not to run script(1) I didn't see the end of make
which probobly sad what you sugested.

10x Peter.




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