Perl: Upgrading

[Tim_125]

I would like to upgrade to the latest version of Perl.

How do I go about uninstalling the version that was installed with the OS (HPUX 11.11)?

I'm assuming I must do this as the newer version that I downloaded is v5.8.5 from perl.com and the depot wants to install it to a different location in the filesys than the current version...

[Steven E. Protter]

I was not aware that perl.com had depot versions of perl for HP-UX.

I suggest you take the following course:

1) back up the system so you can get back to where you started
2) swremove the old version of perl
3) swinstall the new version of perl

This should work well, though you may need to modify the search PATH and SHLIB_PATH variables based on the new location.

SEP

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

If you want to build perl yourself, you'd have to fetch the sources from perl.org, not from perl.com, which indeed does not have depot's for as far as I know

Easiest way is to just leave whatever perl is installed on your system in place (except when it's perl4, which can be removed anyway) and then make a choice of the available binary ports for perl

The HP-Porting center has pretty recent builds in depot's, which install, depending on the version you fetch, in either /opt/perl or /usr/local

My binariy ports are compressed archives that I expect to be installed on /opt/perl or /opt/perl64

Whatever method you choose, just make sure that your $PATH is set up so that the perl version you want to use can be found in your $PATH prior to any other version

My most recent build is 5.8.6 and includes DBI-1.46 and Tk-804.027

My HP ITRC site pages can be found at (please use LA as primary choice):

USA Los Angeles http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/
SGP Singapore https://www.beepz.com/personal/merijn/
USA Chicago http://ww.hpux.ws/
NL Hoofddorp http://www.cmve.net/~merijn/

Enjoy, have FUN! H.Merijn

[Stanimir]

The simpliest way to do what you want is SAM:

SAM -> Software Management
and using appropriated options.

The latest version of perl could be find:

www.perl.com/CPAN/src/latest.tar.gz

or if you dont want to compile it:

hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Languages/perl-5.8.5/

Regards

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Just for the record, if you download that CPAN source file, you will get 5.8.6, which is the most recent stable today.

There's nothing wrong with 5.8.5, I still use that myself.

Both 5.8.5 and 5.8.6 are available from my site for all HP-UX

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn [ who finds compiling with HP C-ANSI-C a good reason to start from scratch ]

[Tim_125]

Thanks all.

I went witht the depot from perl.com and everything is working fine.

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Can you please tell me where you found the depot on perl.com, so I might add that to the standard HPUX documentation in Perl. That would help people in the future.

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn [ Who silently hopes it's not the ActiveState build ... ]

[Patrick Wallek]

Merijn,

http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html#hpux

It appears that for 5.8.5 that merely point to the HP-UX porting centre.

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Ahh, OK. That's Jarkko's page. He was perl-5.8.[01]'s pumpking. Indeed these refer to the porting center and my own site. Thanks.

No points here please.

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn