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in reply to Perl 5.8 on Debian

BTW, you don't need to switch the entire server to testing (or unstable); you can just upgrade perl. Try 

[sudo or whatever] apt-get install perl/testing

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Re^2: Perl 5.8 on Debian
by Joost (Canon) on Apr 06, 2005 at 11:49 UTC
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Re^2: Perl 5.8 on Debian
by crouchingpenguin (Priest) on Apr 06, 2005 at 12:33 UTC

    Or even

    apt-get build-dep --compile perl && apt-get source --compile perl

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    with

    deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main
or
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main

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    cp
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Re: Perl 5.8 on Debian
by crenz (Priest) on Apr 06, 2005 at 13:00 UTC

    Thanks, that sounds like a viable option. That way, I can install perl, Apache and mod_perl from testing. Of course, there are still some security issues, but at least I only have a few packages to watch, not a whole system.

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Re^2: Perl 5.8 on Debian
by gam3 (Curate) on Apr 07, 2005 at 12:58 UTC
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