I download perl 5.8.6 from ftp.freebsd.org

[tchatzi]

And these are the files that where inside the
pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/perl5/perl5.8.6_2.tbz package

-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        41 May 12 06:44 +COMMENT
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    225739 May 12 06:44 +CONTENTS
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      7086 May 12 06:44 +DEINSTALL
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       254 May 12 06:44 +DESC
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      7086 May 12 06:44 +INSTALL
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel     15218 May 12 06:44 +MTREE_DIRS
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      1024 Jun 25 08:45 bin
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel       512 Jun 25 08:45 lib
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel       512 Jun 25 08:45 man

So how do i install it?


``The wise man doesn't give the right answers,
he poses the right questions.''
TIMTOWTDI

 

[Wishdiak]

perluserpengo,

Probably the easiest way to install Perl in FreeBSD is using the ports collection. You'd simply:

cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8
make install clean

Keep in mind that the current version of perl 5.8 is 5.8.7, not 5.8.6.

Wishdiak
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[tchatzi]

Thanks for the reply, i just used the traditional way.

I know about the current version, but i had to install that one.

Anyway i found freebsd easy to use. I thought it would be harder.


``The wise man doesn't give the right answers,
he poses the right questions.''
TIMTOWTDI

 

[Wishdiak]

perluserpengo,

Out of curiosity, what was the reason that you "had to install" Perl 5.8.6?

Oh, and have we made a FreeBSD convert out of you yet?

Wishdiak
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[tchatzi]

The guys that i work for needed a new server and i thought it would be nice to build a freebsd.

Then they told me to install everything that the old server (redhat) had and nothing else (no new version of nothing)
so that is what i did.

I didn't get the second question you made.
Can you simplify it for me please.


``The wise man doesn't give the right answers,
he poses the right questions.''
TIMTOWTDI

 

[Wishdiak]

perluserpengo,

I find that most of the friendly flaming between the Linux and FreeBSD communities is resolved by having Linux users run FreeBSD for a while. I'm not saying that it's so good that they don't go back, but there are plenty of things that are easier to do in FreeBSD than in Linux.

I was just wondering if you were one such convert to FreeBSD. Meant in jest, mostly.

Wishdiak
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[tchatzi]

I find freebsd, from day to day, to be more configurable than linux.

I think that linux is the same stable in simple things, it has some things out of the box (which makes easy to finish configuration faster), and it might be a bit faster than freebsd.

FreeBSD has a “monolithic” kernel. And some things to enable them you have to recompile the kernel. Which is bad and good.
It might not work.
But this gives a chance to newbies to know what the kernel is and to adv users to optimise it.

I realy like freebsd, and eventualy i'll migrate eveything from my linux boxes to freebsd ( i hope in a week to be ready).

So probably i'll be from those that go from linux to freebsd and never come back!


``The wise man doesn't give the right answers,
he poses the right questions.''
TIMTOWTDI

 

[marsd]

All wrong IMHO.
Most Linux distros are FAR more malleable that a decently built and maintained BSD system, because ports is much
better than RPM, and yet the BSD system is more fragile
because it doesn't deal well with 'other-party' source
adds than Linux when you want to do it that way.

I've found that upgrading kernels and core components is
much easier with linux without component(read service) breakage.

If you move from linux to free be ready for some pretty big disappointments on large vendor iron and smp.
Be ready for some amazing departures and interpretations
of/from the posix standard.

I'm not flaming. I plan my implementations and know where free goes and where linux goes.

F-bsd is awesome for stuff I change rarely.
Linux is great for what I need to change frequently and
with great flexibility.