Installtion failed of Perl 5.8.0

[Abdel Guelmamene]

Hi,

i try to install a new version of perl 5.8.0 in my hp-unix system 11.0, the file i have downloaded is : perl-5.8.0-sd-11.00.depot.

With swinstall , i have this message :

/tmp/perl-5.8.0-sd-11.00.depot": You do not have the required
permissions to perform this SD operation. Please check to see that
you have the required permissions using the "swacl" command or see
your system administrator for assistance.

What's the matter?
Thanks for your helps
Regards

[Marco Santerre]

I take it that you are root when you are actually installing this product, so what I would recommend is this, restart your swagentd by issuing the following command :

swagentd -r

[Abdel Guelmamene]

Thanks.

[Abdel Guelmamene]

Hi,

The installation is ok, but
How to remplace the version 4.0 by the new release 5-8.0 .

# swlist |grep perl gives :
perl 5.8.0 perl

# perl -v gives

This is perl, version 4.0

Thanks

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

believe default install of perl 5.8.0 is in /usr/local/perl

check if your PATH is set to the new perl install.

Hope this helps,
Robert-Jan

[Marco Santerre]

Chances are what is happening is that your PATH is set and finds your other version of Perl prior to finding your Perl 5.8

Issue a whereis command to find your Perl v4.0

whereis perl

and remove it from there (it's probably /usr/contrib/bin), and then include your new path for Perl 5.8 in your PATH (probably /opt/perl/bin or /opt/perl5/bin)

That should fix your problem