Perl 5.8.8 in Ubuntu 6.06

[Joseph Hall]

On 3/19/07, Michael Moore <stuporglue at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm willing to bet that just installing 5.8.8 from aptitude would fix
> > things, but it doesn't seem to be available for Ubuntu 6.06. Can
> > somebody point me in a good direction to get my Perl install fixed,
> > without having to apply major changes to my system?
>
> By 'major changes', do you mean you doing major work, or do you mean
> lots of changes on your system?

When I went from 5.10 to 6.06, lots of stuff broke. Christer helped me
get most of it fixed, but my screensaver has never been the same. It
took a couple of days to get everything working right again.

> -- Lots of changes, little work --
> Feisty has 5.8.8, and requires little work on your part (change
> /etc/apt/sources.list), but would upgrade tons on your machine.

For the above reason, this scares me a little.

> -- Lots of work, few changes --
> Installing perl 5.8.8 from source, but creating a .deb file instead of
> running make-install would be an option, but would require a good bit
> of work on your part.

Already installed from source. Creating a .deb file sounds like a good
deal more work than I think I can handle.

> -- Middle ground --
> An easy compromise might be to temporarily change your sources.list to
> feisty, do an apt-get update, apt-get install perl, then change your
> sources back and do another apt-get update. That would install perl
> 5.8.8 and its dependencies (according to what the feisty packages
> say), and leave the rest of your stuff alone.

I thought about that... but it scares me a little too. I think I would
prefer to just go to 6.10.

-- 
Joseph
http://blog.josephhall.com/