Semi-OT: installing MS on an old redhat box - perl version?

[Julian Field]

MailScanner and SpamAssassin should both run okay on Perl 5.6.1.
I would download the source tarball of Perl, or the SRPM of it, and
work on that. Remove the whole of /usr/lib/perl and the RPM's of it
all before you actually do the "install" step. Then you can be
confident that your old installation has gone.

On 19 May 2005, at 08:19, John Wilcock wrote:

> Sorry for the off-topic, but I know many here will have the necessary
> experience...
>
> I've inherited a colocated redhat 7.2 box. Upgrading the OS is not an
> option. This box originally had perl 5.6.0 and has been updated to
> 5.6.1
> using the official redhat rpm for rh7.2.
>
> I now want to install MailScanner, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, MailWatch,
> etc.
> on the box. Can I stick with perl 5.6.1 or would I be better going to
> 5.8.x? If I choose to (or need to) upgrade perl, what's the best and
> cleanest way of going about it? I'd like to avoid the horror
> situations
> we sometimes hear about on this list and elsewhere when boxes have
> multiple versions of perl installed, or remnants of old versions.
>
> Would I be better off letting CPAN upgrade perl for me, or should I
> get
> a recent fedora SRPM and rebuild it, or what?
>
> John.
>
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