Upgrading PERL question

[Bob Wallner]

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?

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

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

[James R. Ferguson]

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...

[Bob Wallner]

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

[Steven E. Protter]

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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