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#1 (**permalink**) 01-12-2008, 06:16 AM

I downloaded Perl 5.80 from a mirror of Sunfreeware and installed it
on a test Solaris 5.8 system using pkgadd, wishing to replace the
rather venerable 5.005 or so Perl that had come pre-installed.

It appeared to install ok, but I was slightly surprised to find
that /usr/bin/perl was still the old version.

Is it correct and sufficient, after doing the pkgadd, to copy or link
the executables in /usr/local/perl5/bin (perl, perldoc, etc) to /usr/bin?

This is in fact what I did on my test system, and it seemed to work ok,
but being relatively new to Sun/Solaris, I had expected pkgadd to do all
that was necessary to make the new version available by default.

The value of @INC looks correct and all the new /usr/local/perl5/lib or
whatever, is there ok.

Should I have attempted to pkgrm the old one first?

(I did save copies of the old versions in /usr/bin, to be on the safe
side).

Thank you.

--
mike@ellwoods.org.uk

#2 (**permalink**) 01-12-2008, 06:16 AM

> Is it correct and sufficient, after doing the pkgadd, to copy or link
> the executables in /usr/local/perl5/bin (perl, perldoc, etc) to /usr/bin?

I believe it is ok to remove /usr/bin/perl but leave
/usr/perl5/* alone as it is needed by the system.

#3 (**permalink**) 01-12-2008, 06:16 AM

>> On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 23:27:55 +0000,
>> Mike Ellwood <mike@ellwoods.org.uk> said:

> I downloaded Perl 5.80 from a mirror of Sunfreeware and
> installed it on a test Solaris 5.8 system using pkgadd,
> wishing to replace the rather venerable 5.005 or so Perl
> that had come pre-installed.

http://www.science.uva.nl/pub/solari...is2.html#q3.75

hth
t

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Installing Perl from Sunfreeware with pkgadd (Solaris 5.8); /usr/bin?