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Date:      Thu, 17 May 2001 20:13:30 -0700
From:      Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Perl 5.6 on FreeBSD 4.3
Message-ID:  <p05100323b72a42f28e89@[165.227.249.18]>

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Greetings again. I was amazed not to see anything in the archives 
about this. FreeBSD 4.3 comes with Perl 5.005 installed. I need to 
run Perl 5.6 for some of the programs I'm bringing over. In 
/usr/ports/lang/perl5, it says:

>This port is marked FORBIDDEN as it conflics badly with the Perl5
>that is in the 'base' system. Sysadmins and users who know how to
>override this may do so, and must accept the risk of doing so.

That's not very helpful. Is there a known safe way of installing Perl 
5.6 and keeping the two installations parallel? I'm happy to have it 
installed as /usr/bin/perl5.6 or something like that.

--Paul Hoffman

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