topic Re: Upgrading PERL question in Operating System - HP-UX

Upgrading PERL question

Bob Wallner — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:31:27 GMT

I am trying to get all our servers to teh same patch levels. Starting with Perl. The oldest system has d.5.8.3.d I want to upgrade it to 5.8.8.d. Do I need to unistall .3 before or can I just install the .8 depot? If I have to uninstall first, how do I do this?

Re: Upgrading PERL question

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:36:30 GMT

No need to uninstall. Installing from the new depot will upgrade.

Perl 5.8.3 and 5.8.8 should be binary compatible (unless you get the depots from different sources).

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

Re: Upgrading PERL question

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:36:32 GMT

Hi Bob:

You don't need to uninstall. Simply install the newer version.

If 'swinstall' is used for installation; to un-install, you use 'swremove'.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Upgrading PERL question

Bob Wallner — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:38:23 GMT

Cool! Thanks! I just wanted to make sure before I did something worng.

Re: Upgrading PERL question

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:21:54 GMT

Shalom,

This is one of those exceptions to the general rule.

For Ignite you must do a removal prior to a new version to get proper functionality. Its also recommended in the case of many add ins like CIFS/9000 samba.

For stuff like PERL I've pretty much just upgraded for years. In place, only one time broke a script.

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