1. You can use cpan to upgrade perl itself, your rpmdb wont reflect the version in this case. Alternativley, you could wait for someone to build/release an rpm, compile perl manually, or build the rpm yourself. If you choose to go with cpan do the following: #>perl -MCPAN -e shell cpan> i /perl-5/ // something like the following should show up on your screen Distribution G/GA/GAAS/libwww-perl-5.10.tar.gz Distribution G/GA/GAAS/libwww-perl-5.53.tar.gz Distribution G/GA/GAAS/libwww-perl-5.77.tar.gz Distribution G/GA/GAAS/libwww-perl-5.79.tar.gz Distribution H/HV/HVDS/perl-5.9.0.tar.gz Distribution J/JH/JHI/perl-5.7.1.tar.gz Distribution J/JH/JHI/perl-5.7.2.tar.gz Distribution N/NW/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.2.tar.gz Distribution N/NW/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.3.tar.gz Distribution N/NW/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.4-RC2.tar.gz Distribution R/RG/RGARCIA/perl-5.6.2.tar.gz Distribution R/RG/RGARCIA/perl-5.9.1.tar.gz cpan> install N/NW/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.3.tar.gz This should download compile and install perl 5.8.3 on your system, you will have to answer many many questions much like you would have to for ./configure on a manual compile. 2. Provided that you install perl exactly like the perl rpm you already have, the modules *should* in theory, having said that I haven't done a non-packaged perl upgrade in a while so I can't attest to it (but there shouldn't really be any difference). Creating a test environment for these types of things always is a good idea. Testing > hindsight. I'd probably opt for the manual compile in your situation, if you can get the src.rpm for the 5.8.0 build that you have you might find the %build section in the spec file of interest to replicate the configuration, heck you could even take it and build your 5.8.3 rpm with it (after some fiddling with it of course). Just on a side note, which features in 5.8.3 are worth the effort upgrading from 5.8.0 in your environment (just asking out of personal interest). -Tobias -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sysadmin Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 3:17 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Need to update PERL I'm in a bit of a quandary. I need to update my Perl 5.8.0 to Perl 5.8.3. The problem is...it was installed in RPM form when the system was built. Checking the the installed RPM's shows now les than 2 dozen RPM's that appear to be addons to Perl. To make things worse, I am unable to find an RPM install of Perl 5.8.3. I have no problem with compiling source but 1) I'm not sure about how "install/upgrade" over the current 2) worry about that "breaking" some or all of the addons. Suggestions, options, cautions appreciated -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
