On Mon, 14 Mar 2016, John R Pierce wrote:> On 3/14/2016 8:57 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: >> What are the proven/tested version of Perl for CentOS 6 and 7? Is Perl 6 >> operational on either? > > C6 comes with perl 5.10.1 > C7 comes with perl 5.16.3Additionally, there are software collections available for Perl 5.16 and 5.20: https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/?search=perl I can't speak for Perl 6, but a cursory search suggests that neither CentOS 6 nor 7 have readily available packages. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/
On Mon, March 14, 2016 11:26 am, Paul Heinlein wrote:> On Mon, 14 Mar 2016, John R Pierce wrote: > >> On 3/14/2016 8:57 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: >>> What are the proven/tested version of Perl for CentOS 6 and 7? Is Perl >>> 6 >>> operational on either? >> >> C6 comes with perl 5.10.1 >> C7 comes with perl 5.16.3 > > Additionally, there are software collections available for Perl 5.16 > and 5.20: > > https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/?search=perl > > I can't speak for Perl 6, but a cursory search suggests that neither > CentOS 6 nor 7 have readily available packages. >But packages aside, as Linux is UNIX-like system, you can always install it UNIX way: download tarball from perl site, compile and install it. You will have to do your own work maintaining it whenever updates are necessary. Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
On 3/14/2016 9:35 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:> But packages aside, as Linux is UNIX-like system, you can always install > it UNIX way: download tarball from perl site, compile and install it. You > will have to do your own work maintaining it whenever updates are > necessary.just don't replace the stuff in the system directories. build your custom perl to live in /usr/local or /opt or something. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
On 15/03/16 05:26, Paul Heinlein wrote:> I can't speak for Perl 6, but a cursory search suggests that neither > CentOS 6 nor 7 have readily available packages.EPEL has it for CentOS 6, but not 7. The package is "rakudo-star", it's a 2011 version. You can also rebuild the packages from Fedora rawhide which have a 2015 version. Peter