Re: [Sheflug] Perl 5.6 backport to Potato?

[Alex Hudson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 20 September 2001 18:41, you wrote:
> I'm running Debian Potato on my laptop, which only has Perl 5.0xx - is
> there any backported Perl 5.6 deb's around from Woody I can install?

I don't know of any.

If you want an up-to-date Perl, you could put the Perl package on hold and 
then perl -e -MCPAN 'install Perl' or something. This would mean that your 
local version of Perl is more up to date than dpkg realises, but means that 
any CPAN dependencies get worked out (if you're doing anything kung-fu with 
perl you'll probably want some dodgy perl modules at some point ;)

Talking of potato, I have it on my laptop too. Tried to upgrade to KDE 2.2.1 
yesterday, wouldn't have any of it. For all the trumpeting of apt, I don't 
think I can ever remember having an unbroken package database :( Too many 
times I try to install a single package (usually in stable too) and it won't.

Cheers,

Alex.
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