https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/upgrading-perl/m-p/2555756#M724988 I want to upgrade Perl from 4.0.1.8 to 5.6.1 on HP-UX 10.20. I am very unfamiliar with Perl and am not sure of the implications this may have. The only applications I have running on the server are Oracle7, M/C Serviceguard, Measureware, and ARCserve agent. Do I have to be aware of anything or do anything special to upgrade. Thanks Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:02:15 GMT Morris Makuch 2001-07-23T14:02:15Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/upgrading-perl/m-p/2555756#M724988 I want to upgrade Perl from 4.0.1.8 to 5.6.1 on HP-UX 10.20. I am very unfamiliar with Perl and am not sure of the implications this may have. The only applications I have running on the server are Oracle7, M/C Serviceguard, Measureware, and ARCserve agent. Do I have to be aware of anything or do anything special to upgrade. Thanks Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:02:15 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/upgrading-perl/m-p/2555756#M724988 Morris Makuch 2001-07-23T14:02:15Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/upgrading-perl/m-p/2555757#M724989 Hi Morris,<BR /><BR />The good news is that binary distributions are available so that you need do nothing special<BR />other than setting up a symbolic link from /opt/perl5/bin/perl to /usr/bin/perl. (Assuming a typical installation). Your existing perl scripts should be upward compatible with 5.6.x. The only time I have seen problems is when the programmer put in explicit paths (e.g. /usr/contrib/perl/lib) which is bad form. Even in this rate event, the problems are obvious. You should have no <BR />problems and 5.6.x many more features and functions. I can typically run the same perl 5.6.x scripts on both UNIX and NT/W2K. <BR /><BR />Regards, Clay <BR /><BR /> Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:11:02 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/upgrading-perl/m-p/2555757#M724989 A. Clay Stephenson 2001-07-23T14:11:02Z