[Pdx-pm] CentOS 5.x and Perl 5.10+

Joshua Keroes joshua at keroes.com
Thu Jul 7 13:42:22 PDT 2011


perlbrew can handle multiple Perl builds.
http://search.cpan.org/dist/App-perlbrew/bin/perlbrew

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Roderick A. Anderson <
raanders at cyber-office.net> wrote:

> Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
>
>> Is it a forlorn hope or has anyone come up with a way (that hopefully
>> doesn't break piles of other stuff) to get a recent version of Perl on
>> CentOS 5.5 systems.
>>
>> I've done the compile from a tarball, a Fedora src.rpm, etc. with less
>> than stellar results.  They worked but were not really maintainable.
>>
>> I'm looking at moving to Scientific Linux 6 since it is out (verse the
>> last I heard for CentOS 6).
>>
>> Any suggestions or ideas?
>>
>
> Many thanks to all (Joshua Keroes, chromatic, Chris Weyl, Mark Morgan) for
> the input.  I'm building a new Linux-Vserver guest so I can try out perlbrew
> and local::lib.
>
> Any suggestions of where to put stuff so it doesn't trample on (or get
> trampled on) the distribution?  /opt/, /usr/local ...
>
>
>
> Rod
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