From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 20 21:41:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from beebite.ugh.net.au (beebite.ugh.net.au [203.31.238.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82E5D37BBE5 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 21:41:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@ugh.net.au) Received: by beebite.ugh.net.au (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D7ABB279; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 16:41:32 +1100 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by beebite.ugh.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE4D4278; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 15:41:32 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 15:41:32 +1000 (EST) From: andrew@ugh.net.au To: fbsd question Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl 2.2.6 In-Reply-To: <20000221021636.99064.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: X-WonK: *wibble* MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, fbsd question wrote: > Hi, want to upgrade perl 4.036 to perl 5. What do i have to do to remove > perl 4.036,this came with system. So that when i install perl5 > using pkg_add,perl5 is in /usr/bin/perl Just install the perl 5 package and specify /usr/local/bin/perl when you want it. Its not a good idea to replace perl4 completly on such an old system as there may be scripts that wont work under perl5. I would really recommend you do a full system upgrade. Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message