Upgrading Perl to 5.8.7 on RedHat EL 3.0

[Ed Wilts]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 10:52:50AM -0500, dgeorgie at wiley.com wrote:
> What is the best or recommended way to upgrade Perl on RedHat EL 3.0 from 
> 5.8.0 to 5.8.7? 

You don't.  If you need 5.8.7 for specific applications, you install
into /usr/local or /opt and then point those applications to the
different instance.  In general, you leave the stock Red Hat-supplied
versions alone.

        .../Ed

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