Perl 5.8 Installed on Darkwing, Gladstone

Steve VanDevender
Academic Unix Systems Manager
stevev@oregon.uoregon.edu

Perl 5.8.0 is now installed on Darkwing and Gladstone, replacing Perl 5.005_03 as the default Perl version. Your scripts already use the new version if your Perl scripts begin with

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

or

#!/usr/local/bin/perl5

(Note that /usr/bin/perl is a version of Perl 5.005_03 distributed with Solaris 8, and does not include many features of Perl 5.8.0.)

For a description of changes between Perl versions 5.005_03 and 5.8.0, issue one of the following commands:

man perldelta (describes changes between 5.6.1 and 5.8.0)

man perl561delta (describes changes between 5.005 and 5.6.1)

You may wish to use Perl add-on modules for personal projects. We recommend using CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) to install such modules in your own account. To learn more about CPAN, go to http://www.cpan.org/ or issue the command perldoc CPAN

The following add-on modules have been installed systemwide because they have been frequently requested and were available in previous Perl installations:

1. DBI
2. GD
3. HTML::Tagset
4. HTML::Parser
5. URI
6. libwww-perl