Hi,

I'm new at this, sorry if this is in the wrong place.

Ultimately, I want to design some web pages on my local Red Hat Server (7.2) using GD and/or Image::Magick. I've done some basic stuff - posting perl pages from /cgi-bin/, but now I want to upgrade perl and add the necessary perl modules.

However, I have fallen at the first hurdle....

The system is currently running perl 5.6.0. I've upgraded to 5.8.0 using the rpm distro, and the latest stable.gz from CPAN. I'm not sure which one did the load because I've gone around in circles with this. Anyway, I think it's there because if I try to load it again it says it's already there.

However, when I perl -v, it tells me I still have 5.6.0

I installed from an account other than root.

I assume I need to tell the system how to use perl 5.8.0 for all users somehow. Is there some global parameter somewhere that I need to set?

Or does something need to be added to a login script in the user account?

Thanks,




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You're using CPanel?

If you are, I suggest you ask you're host about getting an upgrade of perl. Even if you don't have CPanel, still ask your host. They should be able to do it for you(IF they're a good host...) :wink:

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Mr Tech,

Thanks for responding. I'm not sure what Cpanel is - some sort of hosting service? I'm not using a hosting service, I have a local server on a home network.

I used CPAN - the perl distribution site/people to get the lateest version of perl.

I think my problem at the moment is purely a perl installation problem. Perl 5.8.1 installs, but when I call it on the command line, it uses the previous install - the older version rather than the one I have just installed. I think I need to set some global parameter in Red Hat to force it to use the new install. I don't know what that is though.

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