Using the newer version of Perl!

[Mazen S. Alzogbi]

Jason,
Thank you for the tip. I am learning something new about FreeBSD everyday.

Cheers,

Jason Wilson wrote:
> The answer you seek has been in front of you the entire time. Since you
> missed the package message that blew by when you installed perl, which
> is
> a common ailment some of us suffer from (you mean there's something
> important to read mixed in with all that configuring, compiling,
> linking,
> and installing nonsense that fills my scroll buffer!), some ingenious
> port
> maintainer left the advice for you to read at your leisure in 
> /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/pkg-message.
> 
> Give it a good read.
> 
> Regards,
> Jason Wilson
> Director of Technology
> Nobilis Software
> 
> Babbling Blatherscythe! Mazen S. Alzogbi <mailto:mazen.comp at alzogbi.com>
> 
> had this to say:
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>Perl version 5.005_03 was installed with FreeBSD 4.9 by default. I
>>installed Perl 5.8.x_x from ports (via FTP). Executing perl -v on the
>>console still showing the older version! How can I start using the
>>newer 
>>version? Can't FreeBSD start using the newer version too?
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Mazen S. Alzogbi
>>http://alzogbi.com/mazen
>>
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