slockton
June 19th, 2009, 05:58 PM
Hello,
I need help upgrading perl. I need to use a program that requires perl 5.8.0 or above. I used "perl -v" to get the version that comes with my ubuntu installation (x64 Jaunty) and I surprised to find out that it is version 5.1.0.
So then, a few questions:
1) How can I painlessly upgrade from 5.1.0 to 5.8.0 or above?
2) Why does ubuntu ship with a seemingly out-of-date perl version?
Any help is much appreciated.
Steve
I need help upgrading perl. I need to use a program that requires perl 5.8.0 or above. I used "perl -v" to get the version that comes with my ubuntu installation (x64 Jaunty) and I surprised to find out that it is version 5.1.0.
So then, a few questions:
1) How can I painlessly upgrade from 5.1.0 to 5.8.0 or above?
2) Why does ubuntu ship with a seemingly out-of-date perl version?
Any help is much appreciated.
Steve