Re: FreeBSD 12.3-R perl5.34
- In reply to: Herbert J. Skuhra: "Re: FreeBSD 12.3-R perl5.34"
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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2022 20:37:39 UTC
On 2/13/22 12:21, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 12:08:28PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: >> freebsd-questions: >> >> I recently installed FreeBSD: >> >> 2022-02-13 12:03:20 toor@f4 ~ >> # freebsd-version ; uname -a >> 12.3-RELEASE >> FreeBSD f4.tracy.holgerdanske.com 12.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE r371126 >> GENERIC amd64 >> >> >> Then I installed Perl: >> >> 2022-02-13 11:54:35 toor@f4 ~ >> # pkg install perl5.34 >> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... >> FreeBSD repository is up to date. >> All repositories are up to date. >> The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked): >> >> New packages to be INSTALLED: >> perl5.34: 5.34.0 >> >> Number of packages to be installed: 1 >> >> The process will require 60 MiB more space. >> 14 MiB to be downloaded. >> >> Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y >> [1/1] Fetching perl5.34-5.34.0.pkg: 100% 14 MiB 3.0MB/s 00:05 >> Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) >> [1/1] Installing perl5.34-5.34.0... >> [1/1] Extracting perl5.34-5.34.0: 100% >> >> >> But Perl does not work: >> >> 2022-02-13 11:59:02 toor@f4 ~/f4.tracy.holgerdanske.com >> # perl -v >> -bash: perl: command not found >> >> 2022-02-13 12:05:30 toor@f4 ~ >> # locate / -name perl | egrep 'perl$' >> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.34/perl >> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl >> /usr/local/share/bash-completion/completions/perl >> /usr/local/share/bash-completion/helpers/perl >> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.34/perl >> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl >> /usr/local/share/bash-completion/completions/perl >> /usr/local/share/bash-completion/helpers/perl >> >> >> Comments or suggestions? > > The default perl version is still 5.32. If you want 5.34 you have to set > > DEFAULT_VERSIONS+= perl5=5.34 > > in /etc/make.conf and use ports. > > Or you can use poudriere to build your own package repository. > > -- > Herbert Thank you for the reply. I use packages. I have never encountered DEFAULT_VERSIONS before, nor problems installing a Perl package. STFW this page indicates DEFAULT_VERSIONS is for ports users: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Ports/DEFAULT_VERSIONS DEFAULT_VERSIONS is the mechanism that allows the user to set or override which version of software they want to be used as the dependency for other ports. How do I determine which package is the default when there is more than one choice? 2022-02-13 12:34:58 toor@f4 ~ # pkg search perl | egrep '^perl5.+5.3' | sort perl5-5.32.1_1 Practical Extraction and Report Language perl5-devel-5.35.4.102 Practical Extraction and Report Language perl5.30-5.30.3_1 Practical Extraction and Report Language perl5.34-5.34.0 Practical Extraction and Report Language David