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opt-perl what is it

by mic537 (Novice)
on Apr 02, 2018 at 08:27 UTC ( [id://1212140]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

mic537 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello! I need to install MIME::Base64::URLSafe in my Centos-7 perl distribution. It is not found in repositories, but I found opt-perl-522-MIME-Base64-URLSafe in google . I tried to install it, it demands another opt-perl-522 modules and other modules demands yet another opt-perl-522 modules. It seems to me that opt-perl it is another branch of perl which I have to install separately from my usual perl-5.16. Strangely for me I could not find any explanation in google about opt-perl. Please, clear me situation with this. And are there ways to avoid this MIME::Base64::URLSafe.

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Re: opt-perl what is it
by hippo (Bishop) on Apr 02, 2018 at 11:42 UTC

    Centos 7 uses perl 5.16 as standard. Some perl code might need a bit more recent perl and for this you have the opt-perl-522* packages. They are available from the packages.endpoint.com repository.

    So you can either install perl 5.22 via these packages or (and this is what I would do) just install MIME::Base64::URLSafe from source, ideally into a non-system tree. The module is very old and therefore does not require perl 5.22 or anything like it. Should run fine on 5.8.8 and probably even earlier.

    And are there ways to avoid this MIME::Base64::URLSafe.

    Sure, just don't use it.

Re: opt-perl what is it
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 02, 2018 at 12:21 UTC
    "opt" usually refers to an "optional" (distro) package.

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