Re: perl 5.8.1 or later for rhel 3

On 1/27/2007 6:01 PM, Alois Treindl wrote:
> Alois Treindl wrote:
>> RHEL 3 has perl-5.8.0 but I have some application which refuses to 
>> start with perl version < 5.8.1
>>
>> Does onyone know of perl rpms for rhel 3 which allow me to update 
>> easily to this version (or later)?
> 
> solved it myself: took the perl rpm from Fedora 2.
> Needed 'nodeps' and 'force' to install but seems to do its job.
           ^^^^^^       ^^^^^

This is almost always a bad idea...  A much better idea would be to have 
installed both the old and new copies of perl and then have your 
application run the right binary.  With luck, you won't have broken 
anything important...

	.../Ed
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