Re: Perl 5.6

2001-08-15 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Jason Price wrote: > > I am currently running a stable distribution of debian, but want to get > Perl 5.6 installed. I noticed it is not in the stable distribution. > What would be the safest/best/easiest way to get it installed? I'm a > pretty new linux user, so be ge

Re: Perl 5.6

2001-08-15 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:31:23PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:11:13PM -0400, Jason Price wrote: > > I am currently running a stable distribution of debian, but want to get > > Perl 5.6 installed. I noticed it is not in the stable distribution. > > What would be the

Re: Perl 5.6

2001-08-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:11:13PM -0400, Jason Price wrote: > I am currently running a stable distribution of debian, but want to get > Perl 5.6 installed. I noticed it is not in the stable distribution. > What would be the safest/best/easiest way to get it installed? I'm a > pretty new linu

Re: perl 5.6 potato

2001-05-22 Thread Martin Würtele
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 12:37:47PM +0200, Iwan Mouwen wrote: > If you're going to upgrade libc remember to keep a backup of: > - the original packages (libc6, libc6-dev, libdb2) > (in general: a backup of every package that you upgrade) wouldn't an apt-get install --reinstall with potato sou

Re: perl 5.6 potato

2001-05-22 Thread Iwan Mouwen
> If you need to upgrade your libc6 you have to do > it at first. Otherwise you can't use tools like dpkg. It's very angry > if this will happens. So note: You need always a working perl, dpkg > needs it. If you're going to upgrade libc remember to keep a backup of: - the original packages (libc

Re: perl 5.6 potato

2001-05-22 Thread Martin Würtele
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:43:32AM +0200, Timeboy wrote: > I use perl5.6 on potato! My mailclient CSCMail is wirtten in perl and > works fine! > > But be careful by upgrading the required packages. And you could need to > upgrade your libc6. I upgradet to glibc2.2.4 to use kernel 2.4.4 with > tool

Re: perl 5.6 potato

2001-05-22 Thread Timeboy
On Tue, 22 May 2001 11:20:06 +0200, Martin Würtele wrote: > ** hi, > ** > ** anyone tried to set up perl 5.6 on potato? it seems as it is the first > perl > ** that replaces all others instead of adding itself as /usr/bin/perl5.6. > ** > ** any troubles i might face or does it install fin

Re: Perl 5.6 and potato

2001-01-24 Thread Matthew Dalton
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:39:49PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > > > > The alternatives system probably takes care of it. /usr/bin/perl is > > probably a symlink to /etc/alternatives/perl, which is in turn a symlink > > to

Re: Perl 5.6 and potato

2001-01-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:39:49PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > mike polniak wrote: > > > > Arcady Genkin wrote: > > > I'd like to install Perl 5.6, without upgrading potato's default > > > 5.005. Do you think that if I installed Perl 5.6 under /usr/local and > > > renamed the executable to per

Re: Perl 5.6 and potato

2001-01-24 Thread Matthew Dalton
mike polniak wrote: > > Arcady Genkin wrote: > > I'd like to install Perl 5.6, without upgrading potato's default > > 5.005. Do you think that if I installed Perl 5.6 under /usr/local and > > renamed the executable to perl-5.6 for instance there would be any > > issues with using it or it interfe

Re: Perl 5.6 and potato

2001-01-24 Thread mike polniak
Arcady Genkin wrote: > I'd like to install Perl 5.6, without upgrading potato's default > 5.005. Do you think that if I installed Perl 5.6 under /usr/local and > renamed the executable to perl-5.6 for instance there would be any > issues with using it or it interfering with Debian's vital utilitie

Re: Perl 5.6 deb packages?

2000-08-16 Thread Bernhard Josef Rieder
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:06:25PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi there > > where can I get perl 5.6 debian packages? > check out http://www.daft.com/pub/debian/experimental for perl 5.6 packages A list of inofficial APT-sources can be found at http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/de

Re: Perl 5.6 deb packages?

2000-08-16 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi there > > where can I get perl 5.6 debian packages? > www.activestate.com They are not Debian policy compliant (install into /usr/local) and will not satisfy dependencies for other Debian packages which require perl but otherwise work well