On Jan 15, 7:39 am, telemac...@arpinum.org (Telemachus) wrote: > On Wed Jan 14 2009 @ 8:17, dolphin_sonar wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > I bought the O'Reilly 5th edition Learning Perl the other day and it's > > great. I am new to programming and Perl as well. I do know my way > > around Linux but I am having problems upgrading from the version that > > was on my OS (Cent OS 5.2) to 5.10. I downloaded Perl 5.10 from > >http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/R/RG/RGARCIA/perl-5.10.0.tar.gz, then > > tar -xvzf perl-5.10.0.tar.gz the package in /usr/local/bin I then > > followed the README guide that said to: > > > ./Configure -des -Dprefix=$HOME/localperl > > make test > > make install > > > Now, the first command was probably my mistake because I really have > > no idea what that would do. > > In -Dprefix=$HOME/localperl, the variable $HOME is what you're not getting, > I think. That configuration line means "build a new installation of Perl in > my home directory and put it all into a folder called localperl." > (Normally, the build would get put into the directory you choose, but then > into bin/, lib, share/ and man/ directories there.) > > > I've also noticed that now there's a perl5.10.0 located in the /root/ > > localperl/bin so I am sure it has something to do with the > > above .Configure command. Can anyone give me some advice on how to get > > 5.10 working? I feel like I am close, but nothing so far. > > Apparently, you were logged in as root when you built and installed this > version of Perl. That was a mistake. You should be root as little as > possible. (I can tell you were root since $HOME for root = /root. You > configured it to be built in $HOME/localperl and it was.) > > In any case, I would recommend that you remove entirely the localperl/ > directory in your root home directory, and then start again. Download the > latest sources as a regular user, in your regular user's $HOME. Then build > it and install it there. After that you should be able to invoke it with > this shebang line: > #!/home/username/localperl/bin/perl > > Hope this helps, T
T, You are 'so right on'!. Thanks, as you just confirmed what someone else told me on my local Perl Mongers mailing list, though he didn't catch that I was logged in as root so thank you for the tip on that. Now I am starting to really understand why people say that 'You should be root as little as possible' I will remove the localperl dir immediately in root. Thanks! I really do appreciate it! J. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
