From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8017 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tobias Burnus Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: perl question Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 07:58:32 +0200 (CEST) Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020526002356.02b962d8@remote-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035398451 24107 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:40:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:40:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Hans Hagen In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20020526002356.02b962d8@remote-1> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8017 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8017 Hi Hans, On Sun, 26 May 2002, Hans Hagen wrote: > I want to install a perl/dbi/sql script on the web server, but it looks > like redhat comes with a pretty poor perl installed. In which sense poor? Is perl too old or only to incomplete? (Which RedHat? 7.3? lsb_release -r should reveal that [given that it follows the gLSB to at least a certain extend]) Besides the suggestion from Michael Wiedmann to use 'perl -MCPAN -e shell' there are also a lot of PERL modules available as RPM. Try http://www.redhat.com/apps/download/advanced_search.html In general I prefer to use the database (rpm or deb/dpkg) in favour of the perl installation since otherwise it is a bit unclear what is on the harddisk -- and updating a bit more difficult ;-) Tobias