Uninstall Perl V4.0

[Robert Szymanski]

I am preparing to upgrade my HP-UX 10.20 server from Perl4 to Perl 5.6. I would like to know if I need to uninstall the old version of simply rename it to something else. Also, Are there some step by step instructions on how to perform the upgrade?

[Patrick Wallek]

The way I did my Perl upgrade:

1) Download the new version. You can get it in a precompiled depot file from http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Languages/perl-5.6.0/

2) Invoke swinstall and point it to where ever you download the perl depot file

3) After the install I did the following:

a) mv /usr/contrib/bin/perl /usr/contrib/bin/perl.old
b) ln -s /opt/perl5/bin/perl /usr/contrib/bin/perl

And you are done.

Step 3 will make sure that whenever you invoke perl you are using perl 5.6.0 instead of perl 4

[Robert Szymanski]

Thank You Patrick!

Works as advertised. :-)

Robert